Abstract
The recent development of Internet has increased exchanges. This new configuration has permitted to develop new services for virtual universities. The Senegalese government has achieved policies to encourage young people to be interested in Science, Technology, and Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Thus, nowadays STEM education becomes a national priority. However, the STEM disciplines demand students to carry out hands-on experiments in laboratories. It goes without saying that integrating STEM education in the context of virtual universities needs implementation of remote laboratory platforms to perform e-learning activities. So, this paper suggests a new unified access platform. This is to control real and virtual components from any university working in partnership; which will facilitate hands-on experiments. To make our approach more relevant, some concrete scenarios of both real and virtual laboratory experiences were set to be applied for mathematics and computer science students of Senegal Virtual University (UVS). Those students were taught how to achieve the remote laboratory experiments through the present platform. Students were also given full access to physical and virtual machines of the laboratory to perform hands-on experiments.
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