Educational practice in virtual laboratories for engineering studies

In this article new ways to approach the educative process are presented, they are shown from a point of view of the education methodology, as the virtual laboratories. A study of the necessity to incorporate in the education of engineering degrees, virtual laboratories. In addition, the advantages that these laboratories offer are analyzed and the disadvantages that the students have when they use them and other new technologies which are involved in the use of this means of education. The study and analysis that appear here have been made with computer science engineering and technical engineering students. This studies have a technical-scientific character and are intimately linked to the use of new technologies and virtual laboratories. University of Alicante and the I.C.E. (Education Sciences Institute), under the educational project: “Educational network: Remote virtual laboratories for the practical learning of engineering subjects”