Microcomputer-Based Laboratories at A. Mickiewicz University

A brief history of teaching of computer science and application of microcomputers for educational purposes in general high schools and at universities is given.One of the on-line experiments (thermal conduction study) prepared for university student laboratories is discussed. The information on Microcomputer-Based Laboratories (MBLs) organized at A. Mickiewicz University within the MAPETT-TEMPUS project is included and ways of using MBL in the education of physicists and physics teachers are proposed. A few interesting experiments designed to be performed in MBLs are presented.