Pub Date : 2013-03-13DOI: 10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530110
C. Barros, C. Leão, F. Soares, G. Minas, J. Machado
Remote laboratories have been developed to support the students' learning and to reduce equipment costs. More and more, laboratories play an important role in engineering teaching, since they allow the connection between theory and practice. Actually, there is the necessity to change strategies and methodologies of education. The remote laboratories enable the access to all students anytime, anywhere because they are available on the Internet. This paper presents the firsts developments of an innovative laboratory in the bioengineering area: RePhyS. RePhyS will be a remote laboratory for use in biomedical and physiological systems studies in graduate and post graduate levels. The user will be allowed to interact with the system parameters, and to control some system variables. This new lab will enable to produce, visualize and analyze, in real-time, results of practical experiences in order to improve students' activity of learning, and it will provide with an enriched computing environment for sharing results and collaborations.
{"title":"A multidisciplinary experience in Remote Physiological Systems laboratory","authors":"C. Barros, C. Leão, F. Soares, G. Minas, J. Machado","doi":"10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530110","url":null,"abstract":"Remote laboratories have been developed to support the students' learning and to reduce equipment costs. More and more, laboratories play an important role in engineering teaching, since they allow the connection between theory and practice. Actually, there is the necessity to change strategies and methodologies of education. The remote laboratories enable the access to all students anytime, anywhere because they are available on the Internet. This paper presents the firsts developments of an innovative laboratory in the bioengineering area: RePhyS. RePhyS will be a remote laboratory for use in biomedical and physiological systems studies in graduate and post graduate levels. The user will be allowed to interact with the system parameters, and to control some system variables. This new lab will enable to produce, visualize and analyze, in real-time, results of practical experiences in order to improve students' activity of learning, and it will provide with an enriched computing environment for sharing results and collaborations.","PeriodicalId":297233,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122419588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-13DOI: 10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530232
Blagoj Atanasovski, S. Ristov, M. Gusev, Nenad Anchev
Teaching computer architecture requires a lot of effort by the instructor. Introduction of simulators can improve the teaching process and increases student willingness and easier ability to learn the material. There are many visual simulators that cover courses about computer architecture and design. In this paper we present our EDUCache simulator as a supporting tool in the process of understanding the concepts of both computer architecture and computer organization. It focuses on understanding modern multi-layer, multi-cache and multi-core multi-processors. Apart of EDUCache's features to teach the students about the fundamentals of computer architecture and organization, it can be also used for performance engineering of software systems, i.e. the students will also discover the importance of computer architecture which will increase their curiosity for hardware courses in general.
{"title":"EDUCache simulator for teaching computer architecture and organization","authors":"Blagoj Atanasovski, S. Ristov, M. Gusev, Nenad Anchev","doi":"10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530232","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching computer architecture requires a lot of effort by the instructor. Introduction of simulators can improve the teaching process and increases student willingness and easier ability to learn the material. There are many visual simulators that cover courses about computer architecture and design. In this paper we present our EDUCache simulator as a supporting tool in the process of understanding the concepts of both computer architecture and computer organization. It focuses on understanding modern multi-layer, multi-cache and multi-core multi-processors. Apart of EDUCache's features to teach the students about the fundamentals of computer architecture and organization, it can be also used for performance engineering of software systems, i.e. the students will also discover the importance of computer architecture which will increase their curiosity for hardware courses in general.","PeriodicalId":297233,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114468047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-13DOI: 10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530150
C. Guarch, Pilar Martín Espinosa, Jorge E. Pérez, E. Tovar, G. Viejo, A. Arquero, Javier Garcia
The assessment of learning outcomes is a key concept in the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) since credits are awarded when the assessment shows the competences which were aimed at have been developed at an appropriate level. This paper describes a study which was first part of the project of the Bologna Experts Team-Spain and then developed as an independent study. It was carried out with the overall goal to gain experience in the assessment of learning outcomes. More specifically it aimed at 1) designing procedures for the assessment of learning outcomes related to these compulsory generic competences; 2) testing some basic psychometric features that an assessment device with some consequences for the subjects being evaluated needs to prove; 3) testing different procedures of standard setting, and 4) using assessment results as orienting feedback to students and their tutors. The process of development of tests to carry out the assessment of learning outcomes related to these competences, as well as some basic features regarding their reliability and validity is described and first results on the comparison of results achieved at two academic levels, will also be described at a later stage.
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Pub Date : 2013-03-13DOI: 10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530250
Mario Alessandro Bochicchio, A. Longo, Andrea Secco
Internet and cloud technologies provide great opportunities for education. Such an opportunity is the use of online laboratories for teaching students about management of information architectures. This paper describes the development of interactive online laboratories (OL) for teaching “service levels management in ecommerce systems”. The laboratory was created by IT engineering students with the aim of performing both technical and Information Systems management experiments. The IT tools used for the online laboratory are open source tools, deployed on a cloud infrastructure. The OL created with this approach give students the opportunity to perform experiments with real world scenarios from any location, at any time and at their own pace.
{"title":"An online laboratory for SLA management","authors":"Mario Alessandro Bochicchio, A. Longo, Andrea Secco","doi":"10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530250","url":null,"abstract":"Internet and cloud technologies provide great opportunities for education. Such an opportunity is the use of online laboratories for teaching students about management of information architectures. This paper describes the development of interactive online laboratories (OL) for teaching “service levels management in ecommerce systems”. The laboratory was created by IT engineering students with the aim of performing both technical and Information Systems management experiments. The IT tools used for the online laboratory are open source tools, deployed on a cloud infrastructure. The OL created with this approach give students the opportunity to perform experiments with real world scenarios from any location, at any time and at their own pace.","PeriodicalId":297233,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116606467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-13DOI: 10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530119
A. Caminero, Roberto Hernández, S. Ros, A. Robles-Gómez, L. Tobarra
Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are Information Technology (IT) platforms whose aim is the support of learning processes. Among the features a LMS provides we can find communication tools such as forums, evaluation tools such as questionnaires, or grade tools. A number of LMSs exist, both open-source (such as .LRN, Sakai, or Moodle) and proprietary solutions (such as Blackboard). Among the wide variety of existing LMSs, a crucial question that arises is, which LMS is more suitable for my necessities? This paper strives at answering this question based on a performance evaluation that compares three of the most widely used open-source LMS, namely .LRN, Sakai, and Moodle.
{"title":"Choosing the right LMS: A performance evaluation of three open-source LMS","authors":"A. Caminero, Roberto Hernández, S. Ros, A. Robles-Gómez, L. Tobarra","doi":"10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530119","url":null,"abstract":"Learning Management Systems (LMSs) are Information Technology (IT) platforms whose aim is the support of learning processes. Among the features a LMS provides we can find communication tools such as forums, evaluation tools such as questionnaires, or grade tools. A number of LMSs exist, both open-source (such as .LRN, Sakai, or Moodle) and proprietary solutions (such as Blackboard). Among the wide variety of existing LMSs, a crucial question that arises is, which LMS is more suitable for my necessities? This paper strives at answering this question based on a performance evaluation that compares three of the most widely used open-source LMS, namely .LRN, Sakai, and Moodle.","PeriodicalId":297233,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128695697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-13DOI: 10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530190
Zivana Komlenov, Z. Budimac, M. Ivanović, K. Bothe
Effective team formation and the influence of team structure on the results students accomplish on team assignments are discussed in this paper. Also some strategies for team formation and a particular software tool have been developed to help automate that process.
{"title":"Team formation process automatization","authors":"Zivana Komlenov, Z. Budimac, M. Ivanović, K. Bothe","doi":"10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530190","url":null,"abstract":"Effective team formation and the influence of team structure on the results students accomplish on team assignments are discussed in this paper. Also some strategies for team formation and a particular software tool have been developed to help automate that process.","PeriodicalId":297233,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128364677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-13DOI: 10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530280
B. Deaky
Over the last years, considerable efforts have been invested in order to share online laboratories between different institutions, to unify online laboratory access architectures and to create centralized online laboratory lists. All these efforts would be eased by means of standard methods for accessing the online laboratories. This need for standardization is growing nowadays, especially due to the increasing usage of smart mobile devices. This paper intends to emphasize the need for online laboratory standardization, by means of examples from the authors' work, and proposes a minimal set of standard methods for easy access to online laboratories from different platforms. Direct benefits are also presented.
{"title":"Contribution to online laboratory implementation and standardization","authors":"B. Deaky","doi":"10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530280","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last years, considerable efforts have been invested in order to share online laboratories between different institutions, to unify online laboratory access architectures and to create centralized online laboratory lists. All these efforts would be eased by means of standard methods for accessing the online laboratories. This need for standardization is growing nowadays, especially due to the increasing usage of smart mobile devices. This paper intends to emphasize the need for online laboratory standardization, by means of examples from the authors' work, and proposes a minimal set of standard methods for easy access to online laboratories from different platforms. Direct benefits are also presented.","PeriodicalId":297233,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124667796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-13DOI: 10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530247
L. Hörmann, M. Steinberger, M. Kalcher, Christian Kreiner
Teaching wireless sensor networks (WSNs) only theoretically is not sufficient to understand the complex interaction of these networks. WSNs consist of sensor nodes which measure physical quantities of their environment, preprocess the measured data, and transmit it towards a base station in a multi-hop manner. WSNs are typically used in application areas without wired infrastructure and so they must be powered by batteries or energy harvesting systems. Due to the influence of different factors on the behavior, practical exercises can enhance the learning process because the students can perform their experimentation independently. This work presents the use of a remote lab for teaching energy harvesting enhanced WSNs. Students can learn the behavior of WSNs and the influences of energy harvesting. Furthermore, practical aspects of WSNs are shown by using a realistic application scenario. This work is part of the European project Remotelabs Access in Internet-based Performance-centered Learning Environment for Curriculum Support.
{"title":"Using a remote lab for teaching energy harvesting enhanced wireless sensor networks","authors":"L. Hörmann, M. Steinberger, M. Kalcher, Christian Kreiner","doi":"10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530247","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching wireless sensor networks (WSNs) only theoretically is not sufficient to understand the complex interaction of these networks. WSNs consist of sensor nodes which measure physical quantities of their environment, preprocess the measured data, and transmit it towards a base station in a multi-hop manner. WSNs are typically used in application areas without wired infrastructure and so they must be powered by batteries or energy harvesting systems. Due to the influence of different factors on the behavior, practical exercises can enhance the learning process because the students can perform their experimentation independently. This work presents the use of a remote lab for teaching energy harvesting enhanced WSNs. Students can learn the behavior of WSNs and the influences of energy harvesting. Furthermore, practical aspects of WSNs are shown by using a realistic application scenario. This work is part of the European project Remotelabs Access in Internet-based Performance-centered Learning Environment for Curriculum Support.","PeriodicalId":297233,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126790879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2013-03-13DOI: 10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530169
P. Chayratsami
This paper provides an evaluation of a teaching method using a supplementary laboratory, that utilizes 3 types of laboratory setups to increase the understanding and hands-on skill in a digital circuit and logic design class for pre-service vocational teacher in Thailand. The laboratories include building a digital circuit using logic blocks, doing a computer simulation, and using a programmable logic device (PLD). The effectiveness of the teaching method is evaluated based on students' feedbacks, backgrounds, opinions, and scores. The tools, used in this research, are a set of lab sheets, a computer simulation program called “Digital Works”, and a portable equipment box. After two consecutive years of teaching and using the supplementary laboratory in the digital circuit and logic design class, the students have the same opinions that the laboratory helps them to understand the theories, they will be able to apply the knowledge to the related advance courses, and they agree that all 3 parts of the laboratory are necessary and encourage them to have more hands-on skill. In addition, students' scores show that the students have better grades in average by using the supplementary laboratory.
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Pub Date : 2013-03-13DOI: 10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530137
F. F. Pieterse, A. L. Nel
To enroll for an engineering degree at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), a scholar only needs the following primary subjects, Mathematics, Physical Science and English. The scholar does not need Technical Drawing as a subject. To develop these engineering students into technically aware engineers; to develop their ability to spatially visualize a problem; and to develop their ability to understand technical drawings is one of the major challenges lecturers face in the engineering teaching environment. This paper discusses the use of paper and pencil to teach enhanced spatial visualization. We also discuss the teaching of Graphical Communication to engineering students who enter the course having minimal technical backgrounds and who come from a rapidly changing educational environment.
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