About Grid Supported Learning Environments and Collaborative Virtual Control Laboratories

In this paper, grid technologies are introduced to build e-learning environments for virtual laboratories to be used in control education. Service-oriented grids open new fields of applications, the Learning Grids. The learning services concept and their deployment through grid technologies are excellent means to integrate virtual laboratories into collaborative e-learning environments for control engineering education. An introduction into this area, a review of the grid techniques and example applications from a virtual laboratory demonstrate grid based solutions.