Grid Technologies for Virtual Laboratories in Engineering Education

In this paper, Grid technologies are introduced to build e-Learning environments for engineering education. Service-oriented Grids open new fields of applications, the Learning Grids. The learning services concept based on a learning model and their deployment through Grid technologies are excellent means to integrate virtual laboratories into e-Learning environments for engineering education. The paper goes into the most important technical details, introduces into the used learning model, and shows the authoring of Grid resources for virtual laboratories. Examples from a virtual laboratory demonstrate the advantages of a