Design of a strategy for the use of digital simulators in the teaching of physics to university students

There is a great problem in Mexican Higher Education Institutions due to the deficiencies of knowledge that the students present in the science area, this because, among other factors, to the lack of motivation and interest to learn it. This article proposes the design of a strategy for the use of free access digital simulators for Physics Foundations course students, seeking to increase their interest in learning physics and improve their learning outcomes, as well as offer a basic starting point that helps teachers and researchers to consider all the necessary characteristics for the design of strategies to use them in various subjects. In this strategy, three digital simulators were used: the virtual laboratory of free fall movement simulates throwing different objects from Pisa Tower and selecting the gravity, it returns the results of time, speed and route; I.E.S. Aguilar and Cano simulator allows the user to experiment the result of throwing a ball up, playing with the values of initial velocity and initial height, thus being able to observe the variations obtained as soon as to height-time and velocity-time and the projectile movement; finally the Phet simulator, allows launching various objects from a cannon, varying the values of height, angle, mass and diameter, this simulator is part of the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado which creates free interactive math and science simulations. In addition, evaluation instruments were designed for each simulator, which were applied to the students after the teacher's explanation on two different occasions.