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Internet accessible laboratory experiments allow access to equipment that may not be available in conventional laboratory situations. They can be made accessible at a time that better suits the individuals both delivering and using them and may provide access to an experiment that an individual would not otherwise have been able to complete, due to location, lack of facilities, illness or disability for example. This Special Interest Group, coordinated by Martin Levesley, University of Leeds, aims to form a network of academics, learning technologists and software developers who deliver and support teaching and learning using internet accessible laboratory experiments in engineering, both in the UK and internationally.

The group aims to identify establishments where internet accessible laboratory experiments are being used or delivered and to establish a sharing community in which good practice and reusable learning objects can be discussed and developed to promote the wider use of such facilities.