The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) iLab Project is dedicated to the proposition that online laboratories – real laboratories accessed through the Internet – can enrich science and engineering education by greatly expanding the range of experiments that students are exposed to in the course of their education. Unlike conventional laboratories, iLabs can be shared across a university or across the world. At the core of these remote laboratories is the iLab Shared Architecture, which provides a set of generic tools and interfaces that reduce the time and effort needed to develop, deploy and share a new lab.
The MIT iLab Project has created remote laboratories focused on electrical engineering, physics and nuclear engineering which have been used in for-credit assignments at 19 different universities across five continents. Additional iLabs are also being developed and shared by partner institutions such as the University of Queensland in Australia and Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) iLab Project is dedicated to the proposition that online laboratories – real laboratories accessed through the Internet – can enrich science and engineering education by greatly expanding the range of experiments that students are exposed to in the course of their education. Unlike conventional laboratories, iLabs can be shared across a university or across the world. At the core of these remote laboratories is the iLab Shared Architecture, which provides a set of generic tools and interfaces that reduce the time and effort needed to develop, deploy and share a new lab.
