Can Remote Labs realistically complement physical college lab sessions?
I’ve been thinking about how much practical exposure electronics students actually get during college.
In subjects like embedded systems, basic electronics, instrumentation, and circuit testing, understanding the theory is only one part of the learning process. Students also need enough time to work with real hardware, observe outputs, make mistakes, troubleshoot, and repeat experiments.
The problem is that scheduled lab sessions are often limited, and not every student gets enough time with the equipment.
That made me wonder whether remote access to real lab setups could be useful as an additional learning option.
Do you think remote labs can genuinely support practical learning, or do they miss too much of the hands-on experience?
Also, which electronics experiments do you think could work well remotely, and which ones really need the student to be physically present in the lab?