206 Copyright © 2012, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 11 INTRODUCTION The evolution of the Internet has changed the education landscape drastically (Bourne et al. 2005, Rosen 2007). What was once considered distance education is now called online education. In other words, the method of teaching and learn- ing is based on the use of the Internet to complete educational activities. A specific example of this new teaching model is the Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED). Compared to other Spanish universities, this institution has the largest number of students because distance education allows students to obtain a degree or improve Sebastián Dormido Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain Héctor Vargas Pontifcia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile José Sánchez Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain AutomatL@bs Consortium: A Spanish Network of Web-Based Labs for Control Engineering Education ABSTRACT This chapter describes the effort of a group of Spanish universities to unify recent work on the use of Web-based technologies in teaching and learning engineering topics. The network was intended to be a space where students and educators could interact and collaborate with each other as well as a meeting space for different research groups working on these subjects. The solution adopted in this chapter goes one step beyond the typical scenario of Web-based labs in engineering education (where research-groups demonstrate their engineering designs in an isolated fashion) by sharing the experimentation resources provided by different research groups that participated in this network. Finally, this work highlights the key points of this project and provides some remarks about the future use of Web-based technologies in school environments. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-186-3.ch011