He starts each morning upstairs in a pristine distance learning laboratory, teaching a class via satellite at Simmons High School in the Delta town of Hollandale.
With the improvement of distance learning systems, distance laboratory experiments are being more adaptive.
Systems Engineering and Control teaching has a problem in common with other technical studies when distance learning is required: laboratory lectures.
The tool can be used in real laboratories as well as in virtual laboratories, constituting a support for self-learning or distance learning.
We expect to meet the requirements of distance learning by developing the software-based laboratory exercises, i.e., a virtual laboratory.
Due to their digital format, these materials can be incorporated into a standard classroom, a laboratory setting, or even distance learning.
The overall conception of the PN Web-Lab can be successfully exploited to develop various Internet-based services for laboratory exercises and experiments in distance learning.
The virtual laboratory application is built primarily as an educational tool for distance learning, but these types of applications can be extended, with some considerations, to industrial process control.
Examples of SEPA projects that have been funded include CityLab, a Boston University mobile teaching laboratory, and the University of Washington's Brain Research in Education Program, an online distance learning project to enhance the neuroscience skills of K-12 teachers.
The laboratory presented in this paper is located at the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romanda, and is designed mainly for students from Automatic Control and Applied Informatics – distance learning programme, and also for the situations when professors from our University are visiting professors abroad and the laboratories associated with their lectures are done remotely.
