The design of a distributed virtual laboratory

Being a key aspect in teaching and learning activities, experiment teaching plays an important role to improve students' capability of analyzing and solving problems. In the current network education, due to the lack of effective environment to carry out experiment, it is difficult to build and develop students' capability all round. Our paper presents a design schema of constructing the distributed virtual experiment environment for various subjects. This distributed virtual experiment environment not only can support students to carry out virtual experiments in both independent and collaborative way under network environment, but also make real-time diagnosis and guidance of the experimental processes and results.