Design and Implementation of a Virtual Laboratory for Electromagnetics Teaching in Engineering

Virtual laboratories have had a special growth in recent years in which immersive education is attractive to students and enhances the teaching and learning processes in institutions of different educational levels. Although there are several types of virtual laboratories, there are important challenges for their design as a didactic strategy. One of the main difficulties is to have virtual educational environments especially dedicated to engineering areas, in which users can interact and be supported along their learning process. This paper presents the design and implementation of a Virtual Electromagnetism Laboratory as a didactic strategy considering situated learning approach for university engineering students. This paper presents the design and implementation of a Virtual Electromagnetism Laboratory as a didactic strategy under the situated learning approach for university engineering students. It describes the characteristics of the virtual environment, its design through free software, as well as the post-implementation analysis of the laboratory through the study of the perception of the university community.