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Attracting more young people into science, engineering and technology (SET) careers is a challenge for many industrialized nations on the way towards the knowledge-based economy. Large-scale studies such as PISA show a severe lack of young people's interest in science and engineering-related subjects and even less motivation to pursue an SET-related career for many industrialized countries.
This paper overviews the spectrum of robotics programs at the Israel National Museum of Science, Technology and Space (MadaTech), including exhibitions for visitors and educational activities at the Gelfand Center for Model Building, Robotics & Communication. We present the 2010 robotics program and describe in detail the innovative nationwide robotics competition “OlympiYeda” developed through...
The main goal of the Project Experiment@Portugal is to produce a complete survey of Portuguese developments in remote and virtual labs. This knowledge will provide the conditions for joining forces in order to organize a well structured national website integrating a database of available remote and virtual experiments, categorized for sharing purposes, and looking for delivering valuable contents...
Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is an educational paradigm that promotes the development of highly valuable soft skills. PBL can be combined with other approaches, such as collaborative learning, to enhance students' team skills. Nucleo is a blended learning approach where students work in self-regulated teams. Nucleo combines Problem-Based Learning, collaborative learning, role-play game dynamics and...
Technology-enhanced learning is not just interacting with learning objects. Physical labs are another useful resource in education, especially for engineering and science education. They are confined to the physical location they are bound to. It is obviously interesting for any learning process to be able to open up this access from remote locations in the same effective way as learning objects are...
This work presents a study of the behavior of piezoelectric devices based on a modified Thévenin's equivalent electric circuit. It aims to characterize piezoelectric devices using electric network theory and to complement the instruction of Thévenin's Theorem in classes about electric circuits. The employed approach allows us to outline the most important concepts of operation of the piezoelectric...
The project in question is a project of the Semantic Web and Knowledge Management. The goal is to realize a web interface for semantic search of English exercises, in according to criteria (like content, difficulty level, type, number of entries and so on), assuming that online there are many sites that offer English language exercises. Using Web Semantic Tools (Ontologies, Annotations), it will be...
This paper presents a new framework to automatically evaluate the students' learning in the context of a subject focused on the configuration of network services. Unlike traditional platforms based on theoretical content, our automatic system will be able to immediately assess students' practical skills and, as a consequence, provide them with feedback about the correctness of their activities. Furthermore,...
The present article introduces the main qualitative and quantitative results obtained in a pilot study of e-portfolio implementation in two different subjects offered in the Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC). Specifically, this teaching innovation took place within the Technical Industrial and Aeronautics Engineering School (ETSEIAT) curricula. Our results...
High tech development companies are extremely scarce in the Pan-Arab region and students do not get a chance to gain industry experience in embedded systems development through internships. This paper illustrates Nawatt Lab's experiment to fill that gap by transferring the role of industry internships to local universities and technology incubators. This is accomplished by providing product driven...
We present the design and an evaluation of Thermo-Tutor, an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) that teaches thermodynamic cycles in closed systems. Thermo-Tutor provides opportunities for students to practice their skills by solving problems. When a student submits a solution, Thermo-Tutor analyzes it and provides appropriate feedback. We discuss the support for problem solving, and the student model...
Outcome based engineering education (OBE) requires continual quality improvement (CQI) to ensure that the students achieved the intended learning outcomes. Students are the most important stakeholder in the OBE learning environment and their input in the CQI process is needed to ensure that improvement measures that were put in place as a result of CQI are relevant and suitable. This paper reports...
Remote Laboratories constitute a first order didactic resource in engineering faculties. Their use from mobile devices to increase the availability of the experiments at the laboratory is a challenge highly coupled to the requirements established by each experiment. This paper will present and compare the main strategies for adapting a Remote Laboratory to mobile devices, as well as the experience...
Engineering and technology sectors have long recognised the importance of soft skills for successful career progression. Research suggests that soft skills are better developed when acquired and practiced than taught. The research describes initial reflections on the potential of discipline-oriented, web-based resource for Personal Development Planning (PDP) to promote and support learner's engagement...
This paper presents an agile aggregation and exploitation framework to provide access to remote laboratory experiments to higher engineering education students using a social media platform, namely Graaasp. The usage of this advanced social media enables educators or students to build personal learning environments that include invited peers, tutors or educators, aggregated or recommended resources,...
Following the European initiatives like European Qualification Framework (EQF), Europass and European Learner Mobility, the aim of this paper is to introduce specifications, services and applications that enable the management and use of learning outcome information. We present pilot implementation and validation of the adoption of standards and specifications related to outcome based learning. Prototypes...
A learning environment based on the integration of the LMS and MediaWiki components is suggested to support knowledge sharing among generations of master course students. A case study demonstrates significant raise of motivation and learning efficiency of students with sufficient professional experience as well as communication skills enhancement for all students.
The increasing demand for diverse online materials including video representations of lectures, seminars and symposiums, leads to a continuously pursuit for convenient lecture recording solutions. In this paper, a multi-purpose lecture and seminar capturing solution for collaborative usage, including an Interactive Whiteboard Full HD 1080p resolution and up to 1080i camera support with live broadcasting...
Many systems for learning programming have been developed in view of learning programming is difficult. Unfortunately, a few tools for learning algorithmic have been developed. In this paper, we present Algo+, a tool based on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), to assess algorithmic competencies. Its pedagogical aim is purchasing algorithmic competencies, analyzing ability and refinement...
Multidisciplinary design projects that require students to travel to other countries, especially under-developed countries have the potential to provide very powerful learning experiences to students. In this paper, a PNU model of engineering service learning as a multidisciplinary design project is presented. The key features of the model are in the 1) proposition of creative ideas for a specific...
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