Abstract-Experiments have been at the heart of scientific development and education for centuries. From the outburst of Information and Communication Technologies, virtual and remote labs have added to hands-on labs a new conception of practical experience, especially in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education. This paper aims at describing the features of a remote lab named Virtual Instruments System in Reality, embedded in a community of practice and forming the spearhead of a federation of remote labs. More particularly, it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of remote labs over virtual labs as regards to scalability constraints and development and maintenance costs. Finally, it describes an actual implementation in an international community of practice of engineering schools forming the embryo of a first world wide federation of Virtual Instruments System in Reality nodes, under the framework of a project funded by the Erasmus+ Program.
El artículo refiere al uso de cuestionarios en investigaciones sobre la universidad, enfatizando una perspectiva metodológica crítica de problemáticas concretas. Luego de un abordaje conceptual, se analizan cuatro estudios de equipos y temas disímiles en los que se utilizó esta técnica. Ellos refieren al uso del cuestionario: en una investigación internacional, una cuasiexperimental, frente a un tema sensible e implementado por Internet. Las conclusiones aluden a la ambigüedad terminológica-metodológica, la importancia de leer los resultados en contexto concebidos en enfoques complejos y situados y el lugar del sesgo en la elaboración del instrumento y el análisis de datos.
Experimentation is crucial in science teaching at any education level. Students' motivation and collaborative work are also essential in order to achieve positive learning outcomes. This article portrays the implementation of remote experimentation using VISIR in a Physics subject at high-school level. Qualitative and quantitative data were analyzed for this particular case study in order to shed light on the influence of VISIR on students' motivation. Results showed that VISIR remote lab is a powerful tool to arouse interest in electronic circuit topics.
Experimenting is fundamental to the training process of all scientists and engineers. While experiments have been traditionally done inside laboratories, the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies added two alternatives accessible anytime, anywhere. These two alternatives are known as virtual and remote labs, and are sometimes indistinguishably referred as online labs. Similarly to other instructional technologies, virtual and remote labs require some effort from teachers in integrating them into curricula, taking into consideration several factors that affect their adoption (i.e. cost) and their educational effectiveness (i.e. benefit). This chapter analyses these two dimensions and sustains the case where only through international cooperation it is possible to serve the large number of teachers and students involved in engineering education. It presents an example in the area of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, based on a remote lab named Virtual Instruments System in Reality, and it then describes how a number
This paper analyzes the findings of an international survey questionnaire to which responses were received from over 500 members from different technical societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The survey is primarily intended to uncover members' perceptions of patent filing and research-driven innovation. Our thesis statement is twofold. First, the introduction of basic intellectual property (IP) courses to university Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics curricula would teach students valuable basics of IP and associated issues, technology protection; and possibly stimulate novel/innovative R&D outcomes. Second, studying relevant active/lapsed/expired patent documents could provide stimulating input for ongoing academic research. After analyzing the survey results we conclude that IP coursework could be a catalyst for students and researchers to explore patent opportunities related to their specific interests. The resulting knowledge would further enable researchers to prepare more compelling funding applications. In our experience, IEEE conference publications are often closely aligned with inventions to solve pressing
El presente capítulo tiene por objeto delimitar el concepto de competencia intercultural y su lugar en la clase de ELE desde la perspectiva del docente. Luego de una delimitación terminológica y un repaso teórico del concepto de interculturalidad, destacaremos los ideales, las formas de trabajo y las dificultades expresadas por docentes de ELE. La recolección de datos se llevó a cabo a través de una encuesta implementada en el contexto de las IV Jornadas y III Congreso Internacional de Enseñanza de Español como Lengua Extranjera, evento realizado en Rosario, Argentina, durante marzo de 2013. Las reflexiones de docentes de distintos países del mundo dan cuenta de la dificultad de llevar a la práctica los ideales de enseñanza intercultural a la que todos aspiran. Los resultados obtenidos hacen patente la necesidad de trabajos como los incluidos en esta antología, que intentan aportar soluciones a dilemas tales como la integración de la interculturalidad en otros aspectos de la enseñanza (sección 3 de este libro), la evaluación del componente intercultural (sección 4) o su relación con el objetivo de la autonomía del aprendiz (sección 2). En las últimas décadas, la concepción acerca de lo que comprende la enseñanza y aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera se ha ido ampliando y diversificando con respecto a la tradicional sobreestimación del papel de la gramática. En tal sentido, es ya generalizada la aceptación de una clase que incluya a su vez el componente cultural y la reflexión acerca del mismo, meta que ha sido sintetizada en la expresión “competencia intercultural”. Lo que no logra aún total acuerdo es la forma de implementar dicha perspectiva en función de condicionantes institucionales, didácticos (de los recursos disponibles y de las capacidades docentes) y psicológicos (ideas y creencias de los profesores, expectativas de los alumnos y otros integrantes de la comunidad académica). Entre estos últimos, el presente trabajo se aboca a la competencia intercultural como objetivo de la clase de español como lengua segunda y extranjera desde la perspectiva del profesor. De esta consideración se desprende el lugar de las actividades y el de la evaluación.
Sustainability is currently a general concern in society and in particular in the use of laboratories for educational purposes. Although laboratories are unavoidable facilities for education, they often produce waste resulting from students' experiments. To contribute for sustainable solutions in education, the use of remote laboratories instead of the traditional hands-on laboratories should be considered in every engineering course. It is precisely this aspect that is discussed in the current paper. Some comments about the importance of sustainability in education are made. Later, it is described the use of a remote laboratory named VISIR in a course held at the Polytechnic of Porto-School of Engineering, for the conduction of an electronic experiment named Schmitt Trigger. At the end, some comments about the contribution of this remote lab for sustainability in education, are provided.
This paper discusses to what extent synchronous communication via Skype by Argentine university students of History and Danish university students of Spanish contributed to fostering intercultural competence in the two groups of participants. Intercultural gains are considered both as part of the planned tasks to be solved by the participants (intentional learning) and in the spontaneous communication that arose in the course of the Skype conversations (incidental learning). The overall objective of this telecollaboration project has been the promotion of intercultural competence, with particular focus on the learning and teaching of Argentine regional history. Several tools, synchronous and asynchronous, were used for this purpose. The focus of the present paper will be the analysis of instances of intercultural awareness observed in Skype conversations, and of the affordances and obstacles that this modality of communication seems to pose for the native and non-native participants.
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