Distance Learning

With Distance Learning Remote Experiments, professors can enhance a lecture with live demonstration, students can access laboratories after hours, and researchers can share costly equipment and collaborate on research. This page offers ideas, suggestions, and examples of successful Distance Learning solutions implemented with National Instruments hardware and software.

Online Tutorial
This technical tutorial teaches you how to implement the LabVIEW 6.1 standard remote panels feature to develop and launch a remote laboratory over the Internet. Specifically, we provide a brief overview of remote laboratories, demonstrate the usefulness of remote panels, and provide an example application.
Online Tutorial- Remote Laboratories using LabVIEW

Live Experiments
National Instruments has created several Live Experiments using LabVIEW Remote Panels. These experiments are live demonstrations that offer visual feedback as well as documentation to recreate the experiment. You can log on to any experiment and actually control the program using a standard Web browser.
Distance Learning Live Experiments

Relevant Publications
National Instruments has created a white paper and how-to guide on distance learning remote laboratories using LabVIEW, and also compiled a list of peer-reviewed publications relevant to distance learning. Please follow the link below to access this information.
Distance Learning Relevant Publications

Examples in Academia
Many universities are using tools such as National Instruments LabVIEW and the Internet Toolkit to bring laboratory experience to remote students. Students can use their Web browsers to control experiments and retrieve data.

• Room with a (Lab)VIEW at Clemson University
• From a Distance: Remote Operation of Research Equipment
• Online Controls Lab at University of Tennessee
• Remote Instrumentation at University of Delaware
• Technology in Distance Learning and Teaching