  Designing and developing web-enabled remote laboratories for pedagogical
purposes is not an easy task. Often, developers (generally, educators who know
the subjects they teach but lack of the technical and programming skills
required to build Internet-based educational applications) end up discarding
the idea of exploring these new teaching and learning experiences mainly due to
the technical issues that must be mastered. To tackle this problem, authors
present a novel technique that allows developers to create remote labs in a
quick, didactical, and straightforward way. This framework is based on the use
of two well-known software tools in the scope of engineering education, Easy
Java Simulations and LabVIEW. The development exploits a new feature of Easy
Java Simulations known as EJS-elements that enables Java developers to create
and integrate their own authoring libraries (elements) into EJS, thus
increasing its application possibilities. Particularly, the EJS element here
presented allows to LabVIEW programs be controlled from EJS applications
through a communication network. This paper presents the element creation
details and how this can be used to create web-enabled experimentation
environments for educational purposes. A step by step example of development of
a remote lab for automatic control education is described.
