Projects
School of Engineering iLab Project
Steven Lerman, Jesus del Alamo
The iLab project is an effort to developed online laboratories for use in education. It has three, closely coupled aspects. First, we are implementing several actual online labs at MIT in diverse fields of engineering. Second, based on the requirements of these labs, we have developed a software architecture to support a scalable community of online experiments for use by students at multiple institutions. Third, we are working with the MIT iCampus program to disseminate the iLabs software around the world so as to launch a movement that will greatly expand the accessibility and pedagogical usefulness of experiments in undergraduate and graduate curricula. We are already exploring its use to make several MIT labs available to colleagues in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
