In recent years there has been significant growth in the use of virtual worlds for e-learning.
These immersive environments offer enhanced distance learning facilities where students …

Online laboratories have traditionally been split between virtual labs, with simulated
components; and remote labs, with real components. The former tend to provide less realism …

This paper discusses challenges and opportunities in engineering education, in particular in
the area of control and automation, that have been made possible through advanced IT …

Rapidly changing customer demands, regulations and technologies drive the complexity of
products, processes and production systems, as well as shorter product and factory …

Remote laboratories play an important role in modern education. Because of this, a
multitude of different protocols and systems for building and integrating remote laboratories …

Virtual reality (VR) systems have the potential for alleviating the existing constraints on
various natural and social resources. Currently, real-time applications of VR systems are …

This paper tracks the development of e-government towards the e-government 2.0 concept
under the influence of WWW innovations and provides insight in how strategic goals of e …

This chapter focuses on a cost-effective, hybrid remote laboratory for hardware design. The
laboratory is based on a reconfigurable internal debugging interface coupled with an “in the …

This work aims to contribute to the creation of networks of online laboratories by proposing
the model of a scalable and general purpose laboratory server and its integration into the …

The development platform of a digital game is frequently defined before any game design
document. Without a proper examination, this could exclude other viable solutions. Although …