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Do Students Really Understand the Difference Between Simulation and Remote Labs?

Authors:

Natércia Lima,

Marcelo Zannin,

Arcelina Marques,

Manuel C. Felgueiras,

André Fidalgo,

Susana Marchisio,

Federico Lerro,

Claudio Merendino,

Juarez B. da Silva,

María I. Pozzo,

Elsa Dobboletta,

Ingvar Gustavsson,

Kristian Nilsson,

Francisco Garcia-PeñalvoAuthors Info & Claims

TEEM 2017: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality

Article No.: 15, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/3144826.3145362

Published: 18 October 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Laboratory experiments play a crucial role in engineering education as they strongly contribute to the development of important skills for the professional practice. This paper addresses a students' understanding gap between simulations and remote labs. These two resources (and namely the remote laboratory VISIR - Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality) have been commonly used on several didactical implementations, along with other didactical resources in different Engineering degrees at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and Polytechnic of Porto School of Engineering. This work, developed in the scope of the VISIR+ Project, intends to evaluate students' perceptions considering simulation and remote lab results. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed to better understand how deeply students realize the differences between these resources and their type of data. Preliminary results indicate that a considerable number of student's don´t have a clear idea of these differences, even though sometimes they know their definition. Furthermore, this gap does not seem to differ much with the context (country, course, academic year, course content), students' final grades, teacher approach or implemented tasks.

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Cordeiro AAlmeida MAlmeida M(2022)DEVELOPMENT OF A DIDACTIC SIMULATOR FOR WATER TREATMENT SYSTEMSInternational Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH10.29121/granthaalayah.v10.i7.2022.468510:7(36-50)Online publication date: 31-Jul-2022
https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v10.i7.2022.4685
Pereira FLopes RSarmento RFelgueiras C(2022)Didactic bench to support automation learning - Industry 4.0 education2022 Congreso de Tecnología, Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de la Electrónica (XV Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching Conference)10.1109/TAEE54169.2022.9840744(1-5)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/TAEE54169.2022.9840744
Garcia-Zubia JAlves GHernandez-Jayo UCuadros JSerrano VFidalgo A(2019)A framework for interpreting experimental errors in VISIR2019 5th Experiment International Conference (exp.at'19)10.1109/EXPAT.2019.8876568(31-35)Online publication date: Jun-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/EXPAT.2019.8876568

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