Special Session-Online Laboratories in Engineering Education: Innovation, Disruption, and Future Potential

This special session will focus on innovative and disruptive implementations of online labs and the challenges of their management within educational institution infrastructures. A short presentation of a Draft IEEE Standard P1876(TM) on Networked Smart Learning Objects for Online Laboratories will also be given. The session includes experts in the cyber physical laboratory research and development area to provide perspectives on how these technologies are leveraged to support design, development, management and innovative implementation, and ways of assessing students performing laboratory activities within online lab environments.