VIRTUAL LABORATORIES AS A MEANS OF INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT

The article describes the conditions of intellectual development of students and the method of preparation the students of pedagogical universities to create such an environment using virtual laboratories. This training is carried out in three stages: the study of the principles and functions of virtual laboratories; independent study of the different virtual laboratories to develop methods pedagogically balanced use of virtual laboratories. Concluded that if applying the proposed method of preparing students for the use the virtual laboratories in the educational process, students also learn how to create conditions for the intellectual development of learners based on pedagogically balanced use of virtual laboratories in the educational process.