Chapter 1

Experimenting is fundamental to the training process of all scientists and engineers. While experiments have been traditionally done inside laboratories, the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies added two alter-natives accessible anytime, anywhere. These two alternatives are known as virtual and remote labs, and are sometimes indistinguishably referred as online labs. Sim-ilarly to other instructional technologies, virtual and remote labs require some ef-fort from teachers in integrating them into curricula, taking into consideration sev-eral factors that affect their adoption (i.e. cost) and their educational effectiveness (i.e. benefit). This chapter analyses these two dimensions and sustains the case where only through international cooperation it is possible to serve the large num-ber of teachers and students involved in engineering education. It presents an ex-ample in the area of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, based on a remote lab named Virtual Instruments System in Reality, and it then describes how a number of European and Latin-American institutions have been cooperating under the scope of an Erasmus+ project2, for spreading its use in Brazil and Argentina.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

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Se presenta un trabajo de investigación que en primer lugar expone brevemente el concepto de e-learning y su relación con la enseñanza a distancia. A continuación, se presenta el objetivo de la investigación y la metodología empleada para alcanzarlo. Se pretende identificar cuáles son las variables que habría que tener en cuenta en el diseño de una herramienta de e-learning para las enseñanzas prácticas y de laboratorio y su adecuación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES). Para identificar estas variables se ha empleado la técnica de elaboración de los mapas conceptuales. Se muestran los resultados procedentes de la aplicación de la herramienta utilizada y las principales conclusiones derivadas de la investigación.AndalucíaBiblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín, 5 - 3 planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; [email protected]