TY - JFULL AU - S. Odeh and E. Abdelghani PY - 2009/8/ TI - Laboratory Experimentation for Supporting Collaborative Working in Engineering Education over the Internet T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 1867 EP - 1874 VL - 3 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/2010 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 31, 2009 N2 - Collaborative working environments for distance education can be considered as a more generic form of contemporary remote labs. At present, the majority of existing real laboratories are not constructed to allow the involved participants to collaborate in real time. To make this revolutionary learning environment possible we must allow the different users to carry out an experiment simultaneously. In recent times, multi-user environments are successfully applied in many applications such as air traffic control systems, team-oriented military systems, chat-text tools, multi-player games etc. Thus, understanding the ideas and techniques behind these systems could be of great importance in the contribution of ideas to our e-learning environment for collaborative working. In this investigation, collaborative working environments from theoretical and practical perspectives are considered in order to build an effective collaborative real laboratory, which allows two students or more to conduct remote experiments at the same time as a team. In order to achieve this goal, we have implemented distributed system architecture, enabling students to obtain an automated help by either a human tutor or a rule-based e-tutor. ER -