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Academic institutions are increasingly interested in developing Web-based experimentation environments that support virtual and/or remote experimentation. Virtual experimentation corresponds to simulation and remote experimentation refers to manipulation over the Internet of distant laboratory equipment. The Web-based experimentation paradigm is typically deployed by both traditional and open universities for the main purpose of enhancing the offering of didactic resources designed to strengthen hands-on practice in engineering education. The emergence of clusters and network of universities which have committed to share experimentation facilities [1] becomes an important trend in sustaining the richness of learning resources that are provided to engineering students. In such a distributed laboratory scheme, each partner university can focus on maintaining and enhancing a few highquality facilities in its own domains of competencies and excellence, which is an appropriate way to spread the best resources. The additional resources that may be required to improve an engineering curriculum can be accessed remotely to the other partners location, hence suppressing the necessity to own such resources locally as well as avoiding the related exploitation costs. Web-based experimentation also offers an tremendous opportunity to add flexibility in traditional curricula by providing students with versatile access to the learning material from both a time and a location perspective. Section 2 presents the framework in which flexible education is emerging and the benefit that can be gained by integrating Webbased experimentation resources …