1 Building Remote Laboratories for Education (Workshop) Chair:

Abstract Remotely controlled laboratories have been developed in pilot projects for some years now. Many university teachers are considering to make their local experiments available over the internet as remote labs. There are a number of technical challenges that have to be solved in remote lab developments. In this workshop, we want to share our experience in building remote labs and provide technical insights. Recent issues have been to make our remote labs ready to support virtual student teams and to increase the joy of use. We believe that students should work in teams to raise motivation and prepare them for team work in the workplace. Remote labs should thus allow remote synchronous collaboration, so students at different places can work together at the same time. We also expect that remote labs with high interactivity, visual feedback and authentic views of the experiment will give students a motivating and rewarding learning experience. Index Terms remote laboratories, technology, workshop EXECUTIVE SUMMARY We demonstrate student usage of our labs and then describe their implementation. This includes system architectures, programming languages, protocols and technical details in the following areas: • Video, audio and symbolic diagrams of the experiment • Control software allowing users to perform experiments or program lab devices • Support of multiple simultaneous users: synchronizing views and managing access right