The Project Title: The Virtual Laboratory and Quality of Education

Abstract

The up-to-date requirements to education determine the need in improving all possible forms and methods of teaching and learning process. Currently, the students show interest in the technical means of learning as compared to the traditional ones (books and laboratories) as the first allows eliminating the disadvantages of the traditional teaching and learning methods. The study of subjects through virtual laboratories allows speeding up the process of grasping of the learning materials. At present, the information and computing systems have the determining value in the research and education, production, and other spheres of human activities. Development of informatics and the use of computers in the scientific researches raises the question of revising of the basic concepts on presentation of scientific knowledge even in the already deeply developed and highly formalized areas; this places a premium on the problem of structuring this knowledge. Development of the multimedia teaching and research laboratories and their use in the engineering education is a promising trend in training for the high modern technologies, in preparing of highly qualified scientists and subject specialists, as well as upgrading qualifications of the engineering and technical personnel and staff of the enterprises of the industrial sector (Paluch et al. 2012, pp. 34–37). The aim of this work is to create virtual laboratories for technical disciplines and to incorporate them in the teaching and learning process that determines the relevance of the chosen theme.