The challenge of practical work in an eUniversity-real , virtual and remote experiments

Practical work forms a key part of University level education in many subjects. Current and emerging trends in higher education, such as the increasing use of the WWW in educational delivery, the move towards a "flexible university" approach and the growing need to deliver life-long learning, presents challenges as to how provide such practical work to the university students of tomorrow. This paper outlines these challenges then points to likely solutions and critiques these. World-Wide-Web: the full version of this paper can be found at: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/pearl/publications/index.htm