Virtual Electrical Engineering Lab - An Integrated Environment for On-line Education in Electrical Engineering

This paper addresses the problem of remote collaboration in global electrical engineering student projects. Theproblem has several facets. including the arrangement of virtual engineering laboratory workspaces, the computational support for remote conducting of experimental work. communications, work styles, technology integration, utilisation of digital media in engineering projects and learner embodiment in the environment. We approach this problem combining synergistically the concept of collaborative virtual environment, virtual instrumentation and shared digital representation of the electrical engineering design. Proposed environment incorporates data mining technologies for analysing collaboration data and bringing new insights on the learning activities in on-line learning environments.