Technological advances have made much information available to educational systems, providing a variety of tools that allow adapting and organizing this data into specific content and making it available to teachers and students in virtual learning environments. One of the protagonists of these environments is the virtual learning object (VLO), a digital resource used in platforms such as MOODLE and BLACKBOARD, that allows information to be grouped for specific topics in self-contained packages and which due to its characteristics and self-learning possibilities becomes a piece keys to virtual environments in higher education institutions.