vol. 5 núm. 1 (2019)

The challenges that education based on vir- tual learning environments imposes on educa- tional institutions that incorporate programs under virtual mediation, require students to build a scenario for the promotion of scientific research that is combined with the reality in which they are immersed. Thus, limitations such as the lack of spaces for interaction and socialization of results, the limited relations- hip with seedbed leaders, the connectivity difficulties that group members who are loca- ted in municipalities with low technological infrastructure may face, are some of the limi- tations that work in seedbeds, under virtual mediation, imply for those who promote the participation of students in research groups of universities. Taking into account the above, the conditions under which the research seedlings proposal is developed with the students of the Systems Engineering program, virtual modali- ty of the Andean Area University Foundation, are presented.