(Tipo de Articulo: INVESTIGACION. Recibido el 11/11/2010. Aprobado el 05/12/2010) Abstract - Virtual laboratories have become themselves in a valuable support tool for the teaching practice in diverse professional education areas. Currently we can find implementations ranging from virtualizing basic science laboratories to virtual experimentation in specific engineering topics. Despite the major developments in this field have been reached abroad, in recent years at local and regional scale, progresses have been made pointing towards the efficient incorporation of this teaching-learning scenarios to the university academic activity. We propose the implementation of virtual practicals for the Electronic Instrumentation course as an optimizing element of the existent technological and locative resources. Additionally, within the project methodological framework, we propose these scenarios as a mean to strengthen the student academic and research experiences outside the classroom. We conclude that beyond a mere implementation o technologic novelty, the virtual laboratories open us an entrance for the experimentation with new ways and media of teaching-learning, contributing in this way to the educational effectiveness of the teacher-student relationship.