An integrated system as a tool for complex technologies learning

This paper describes a integrated computer-based learning system improving engineering teaching and learning of complex technologies. It combines a tutorial with a virtual laboratory and a self assessment tool to achieve a self-learning system. The tutorial is a hypermedia document linking different concepts of Electronics technology and combining them with a virtual laboratory. This virtual laboratory is made up of a set of virtual experiments with a user-friendly graphic interface and interactive simulated electronic instruments relating practical and theoretical concepts. The self assessment tool combines a test with each experiment of the virtual laboratory. The whole system matches the constructivist theory and constitutes an interactive computer-based complex tool.