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    Didactical use of a remote lab: a qualitative reflection of a teacher
    (ACM, 2019-10-16) Lima, N.; Viegas, C.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.
    This work describes the teacher reflections about a didactical implementation using a remote laboratory and their impact on his practice. These reflections are analyzed from three different perspectives: how the literature review influenced the design of the didactical implementation (namely the first); how his reflection upon his practice influenced its modifications; how his research activity impacted and affected his teaching practices in the subsequent implementations and guided the modifications made. The remote lab was introduced in a Physics Course in an Engineering degree and was intended to be a learning space where students had the opportunity to practice before the lab class, supporting the development of experimental competences, fundamental in an engineer profile. After the first implementation in 2016/17 academic year it has undergone two subsequent editions with adjustments and modifications. Some features previously reported in literature such as: teacher’s experience with VISIR, the importance of an introductory activity and defining VISIR tasks objectives, were corroborated by the teacher during his practice and research. Others, such as the difficulty some students have in understanding the difference between simulation and remote labs appeared directly from his practice and were pursued in his research in order to deeply understand its implications.
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    Una Federación de Laboratorios Remotos VISIR a través del Proyecto PILAR
    (IEEE, 2017-12-31) Kulesza, W. J.; Gustavsson, I.; Marques, M. A.; Alves, Gustavo R.; Fidalgo, A. V.; Hernandez-Jayo, U.; Garcia-Zubia, J.; Kreiter, C.; Oros, R.; Pester, A.; Garbi Zutin, D.; Auer, M. E.; Garcia-Hernandez, C.; Tavío Gallo, R.; Savela, M.; Garcia Loro, F.; Macho Aroca, A.; San Cristobal Ruiz, E.; Díaz, G.
    Este documento describe cómo un nuevo proyecto Erasmus+, PILAR (Plataform Integration of Laboratories base don the Architecture of visiR), está siendo desarrollado y cómo la puesta en marcha del partenariado y del proyecto está reforzando la red VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality) y el Grupo de Interés Especial de VISIR bajo el Consorcio de Laboratorios online (GOLC - Global Online Laboratory Consortium) de la Asociación Internacional de Ingeniería Online (IAOE - International Association of Online Engineering. La Universidad Española para la Educación a Distancia (UNED) coordina este proyecto que tiene como objetivo federar los sistemas existentes (o nuevos) con el fin de utilizar los recursos de manera más efectiva y eficiente, haciendo transparente para el usuario final la elección de los recursos compartidos
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    Do Students Really Understand the Difference Between Simulation and Remote Labs?
    (ACM, 2017-10-18) Lima, N.; Viegas, C.; Zannin, M.; Marques, A.; Alves, Gustavo R.; Felgueiras, M. C.; Costa, R.; Fidalgo, A.; Marchisio, S.; Lerro, F.; Merendino, C.; da Silva, J. B.; Pozzo, M. I.; Dobboletta, E.; Gustavsson, I.; Nilsson, K.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.
    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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    The VISIR+ Project – Helping Contextualize Math in an Engineering Course
    (IEEE, 2017-06-06) Lima, N.; Zannin, M.; Viegas, C.; Marques, A.; Alves, Gustavo R.; Felgueiras, M. C.; Costa, R.; Fidalgo, A.; da Silva, J. B.; Pozzo, M. I.; Dobboletta, E.; Gustavsson, I.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.
    The long-term goal of engineering education is to prepare students to work as engineers. Being a practical profession, laboratories play a crucial role in illustrating concepts and principles as well as improving technical skills. In the last decades the use of online resources (simulators and remote labs) has been growing, either as a complementary and/or as an alternative way of developing experimental competences. In the scope of the VISIR+ Project, this work presents the first results of a didactical implementation using simultaneously the remote laboratory VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality), simulation and calculus in a Math Course at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). The preliminary results indicate that the use of several resources increases students’ performance, boosting their learning and competence development.
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    A utilização do VISIR como um recurso educativo: uma revisão da literatura
    (2016) Lima, N.; Viegas, C.; Alves, Gustavo R.; García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.
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    Learning from Complementary Ways of Developing Experimental Competences
    (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2017-03-31) Lima, N. M.; Viegas, M. C.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.
    Engineering education has solid needs of experimental competences development. Nowadays these competences can be worked not only in traditional laboratories (hands on) but also through the use of computer simulations and remote labs. The use of diversified methods in education and the exploration of new resources and techniques in classroom may allow teachers to motivate more students, and capture their attention due to their different learning styles. The main objective of this project is to better understand the effects on students’ learning outcomes in different contexts (country, type of institution, background, etc.). Students are subjected to similar design approaches that all use an enquiry-based teaching and learning methodology. The methodology of the didactical implementation is based on the simultaneous use of experimental resources (hands on, simulation and remote labs) together with calculus, in class and assessment. To accomplish this research, several insights must be taken into consideration, including the teachers’ mediation in class, in each case, and the didactical implementations adaptations, but also external factors, such as socio-cultural and/or political factors.
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    VISIR’s Usage as an Educational Resource: a Review of the Empirical Research
    (2016-11) Lima, N.; Viegas, C.; Alves, Gustavo R.; García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.