Abstract: Teaching apparatus, which includes an experimental setup (50) at a laboratory site (32) and a teaching setup at a teaching facility (12) remote from the laboratory site. The laboratory site includes one or more experimental controls (38) for varying one or more parameters of an experiment performed by the experimental setup, one or more monitoring device (42, 44) which capture information relating to the experiment, and a first communications interface (34) which couples the experimental controls and monitoring devices to a network (28).