The Remote Laboratory of Automatic Control tries to be a solution that helps to confront the main challenge posed by the European Space for Higher Education proposes: a Europe of Knowledge. This concept implies other challenges: knowledge mobility, European cooperation, student-centered learning, professional commitment in teaching, and intensive use of the TICs.
This group tries to confront these challenges by means of the Remote Laboratory, aiming to obtain the seven basic principles for a good education (AAHE, 1987; Chickering et al., 1996): communication with the students, teamwork and collaboration, active learning, evaluation or self-evaluation, time-on-task maximization, high expectations and respect for the diversity of the students.
The remote laboratory uses a three-tier architecture. That architecture allows for a systematic and efficient management, operation and addition of equipment, using open, flexible and non-propietary technologies for the development of the platform.
