Virtual Laboratory Applications in Physics Teaching

Existence of a wide variety of virtual laboratories leads to dilemmas among practitioners in terms of selection of such programs and adaptation of them to the subject matter in the pre-service and in-service teacher training processes. The aim of this study is to inform physics educators, teachers and pre-service teachers of the virtual labs used in teaching physics today, as well as the scope, design and features of such software. So they used in teaching physics particularly from primary education to university level are introduced and compared, their superior and weak aspects are highlighted, and target audiences, design characteristics, scopes and details, experiment analyses levels, levels of proximity to reality, and user friendliness are presented considering the data obtained from the literature review carried out based on the content analysis method. Thus, this study is intended to contribute to utilization of the virtual physics labs by users with expected efficiency.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author