In this paper the role of control history in control engineering education is discussed. A possible Web based approach to historical aspects in control education is presented. The paper approaches fundamentals of creating traditional WebQuests, as well as the author's approach to creation of learning tools. The suggested approach is to reject use of the Internet resources and to use local ones, to simplify system of performance evaluation, to add self-assessment tests for each variant and a final test. (C) 2015, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.