Distributed experiments and distributed learning

Abstract

The paper, an enhanced version of conference key presentation, investigates, how the development of new needs in education and developments in IT triggered technology enhanced learning. Online labs play an important in that area. Federation of labs is the new direction to answer the challenges, which come from the intensive use of online labs in the modern learning environments. VISIR Federation is a concrete attempt to implement such a federation. Distributed labs in a federation need commitments from the participants in organization, sharing lab and learning resources.