The article examines the issues related to development of methods for creating a virtual training and research laboratory for chemical and technological systems on the example of technological processes of batch production of organic dyes. The vAcademia programming environment is used as the base software environment for the laboratory prototype. Tools of various systems were used to create laboratory elements: two and three-dimensional design systems: SketchUp, AutoCAD, COMPASS-3D; graphic and video editors: Adobe Photoshop, The GIMP, Photoscape, Windows Movie Maker, SONY Vegas Pro; visual modeling tool for discrete dynamic systems SIMUL8; software for working with texts and tables Microsoft Office. The main purposes of the laboratory are to study the processes of chemical and technological systems, to model them using SIMUL8 modeling system, as well as to create a communicative educational environment that facilitates improving quality of education, exchange of opinions, mutual consultation and, thus, formation of network scientific communities.
The article describes the technology of virtual modeling which is used as a tool to improve the quality of engineering education. The authors propose an approach to the creation of a virtual technological laboratory prototype for studying the processes of organic dyes production in vAcademia software environment. The basic programming environment vAcademia was used to create the laboratory. To create the elements of the laboratory, the tools of various systems were used such as two- and three-dimensional design systems SketchUp, AutoCAD, COMPASS-3D; graphic and video editors: Adobe Photoshop, the GIMP, Photoscape, Windows Movie Maker, SONY Vegas Pro; visual simulation tool for dynamic systems SIMUL8; software for working with tables and text Microsoft Office. The virtual laboratory was created in order to simulate the real laboratory environment and the processes produced in it, as well as to simulate the learning environment in which students transform their theoretical knowledge into practical skills. The test researches on an assessment of the quality of education, with use of the developed communicative and educational environment in the form of virtual space of technological laboratory on studying of processes of production of organic dyes, showed its increase by 15,6%.
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