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Selecting computer tools to virtually operate the practical component in university education is a complex decision which involves many factors. The purpose of this article is to describe the design, adaptation, and validation of a questionnaire in order to select virtual laboratories (VLs). The methodology of consulting Delphi experts was used to identify criterions which determine LVs pertinence in higher education. Two groups of cooperative work were created, and a structured questionnaire was used; criterions or variables were included or added according to opinions provided by experts during three successive rounds. Answers were statistically analyzed. A maximum correlation coefficient of r=0.93 was obtained that shows a high validity. For reliability, the method of Cronbach’s internal consistence alpha was used with a coefficient of r=0.814, and confidence level of 95% (p<0,05), while for the method of two halves, the internal consistence coefficient in Cronbach’s alpha of the first half is 0.736, and 0.718 for the second half; resulting coefficients of the two halves test show a very high reliability index. Endorsement for its administration is composed by 10 criterions. It was concluded that the questionnaire prepared and confirmed for LVs evaluation is composed by valid and reliable characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research suggests that the relationship of the teacher to the production of digital learning materials is an effective way to promote the integration of ICT in education. The paper exposes the results of an experience where teachers linked to a multidisciplinary team to develop virtual laboratories for technical sciences. The main result was the teachers' ability to transform their curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The teams of pumping are disseminated in multiple areas of the service and productive sphere of the society. For this reason the knowledge and study of their characteristics and behaviour had great importance now a days. For it, specialists and technicians of branches like the Hydraulics and the Mechanics, among other, carry out their evaluation in test banks, for measurement of the operation parameters. As result, the characteristic curves are obtained and it is determined if the pump fulfils the requirements for which it is being used. To have a computer tool that allows virtualizes the process of pumps evaluation and serves for training engineering students as well as professionals; it is, without doubts, an element of great importance for their acting. The virtual bank for pumps evaluation presented in this work has been developed by a multidisciplinary team, It allowed to respond, in an effective way, to the relative aspects to the process modelling, as well as to the demands that, from the computer point of view, were thought about, for instance, the development of an application in real time and the use of the multimedia and the 3D graph for the process animations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]