Torre Cubillo, Luis de laHeradio Gil, RubénJara, Carlos A.Sanchez, JoseDormido Canto, SebastiánTorres, FernandoCandelas, Francisco A.2025-07-022025-07-022013-06-04L. de la Torre et al., "Providing collaborative support to virtual and remote laboratories," in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 312-323, Oct.-Dec. 2013, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2013.201939-1382https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2013.20https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/26966Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo. La versión registrada fue publicada por primera vez en IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 312-323, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2013.20. This is the accepted manuscript of the article. The registered version was first published in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 312–323, and is available online from the publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2013.20.Virtual and remote laboratories (VRLs) are e-learning resources that enhance the accessibility of experimental setups providing a distance teaching framework which meets the student's hands-on learning needs. In addition, online collaborative communication represents a practical and a constructivist method to transmit the knowledge and experience from the teacher to students, overcoming physical distance and isolation. This paper describes the extension of two open source tools: (1) the learning management system Moodle, and (2) the tool to create VRLs Easy Java Simulations (EJS). Our extension provides: (1) synchronous collaborative support to any VRL developed with EJS (i.e., any existing VRL written in EJS can be automatically converted into a collaborative lab with no cost), and (2) support to deploy synchronous collaborative VRLs into Moodle. Using our approach students and/or teachers can invite other users enrolled in a Moodle course to a real-time collaborative experimental session, sharing and/or supervising experiences at the same time they practice and explore experiments using VRLs.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess12 Matemáticas::1203 Ciencia de los ordenadores ::1203.17 InformáticaartículoCollaborative learning toolseducational technologye-learningvirtual and remote laboratories