Integration of Virtual Laboratories: A Step Toward Enhancing E-learning Technology

Virtual laboratories are an essential part of E-learning because all the students in their institutes may not have sufficient lab facilities. These experiments can be accessed from anywhere and anytime. Therefore, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India took an initiative of integration of virtual laboratories under the national mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NEM-ICT). The motive of virtual lab integration is to make all the developed projects into an open source repository such that all the lab information is available to a community, students as well as academic institutes, for use and development, to convert all licensed contents into a platform that is independent of any licensed software.