Design, development, testing and validation of a Photonics Virtual Laboratory for the study of LEDs

Abstract

This work presents the design, development, testing and validation of a Photonic Virtual Laboratory, highlighting the study of LEDs. The study was conducted from a conceptual, experimental and didactic standpoint, using e-learning and m-learning platforms. Specifically, teaching tools that help ensure that our students perform significant learning have been developed. It has been brought together the scientific aspect, such as the study of LEDs, with techniques of generation and transfer of knowledge through the selection, hierarchization and structuring of information using concept maps. For the validation of the didactic materials developed, it has been used procedures with various assessment tools for the collection and processing of data, applied in the context of an experimental design. Additionally, it was performed a statistical analysis to determine the validity of the materials developed. The assessment has been designed to validate the contributions of the new materials developed over the traditional method of teaching, and to quantify the learning achieved by students, in order to draw conclusions that serve as a reference for its application in the teaching and learning processes, and comprehensively validate the work carried out.

Project-Based Learning Case in Photonics Engineering Course: Implementation of a Spectrophotometer

“…In the specific case of photonics, these constraints are usually associated with the high cost of the equipment and its availability, i.e. the temporary restrictions on access to such equipment and the closed nature of the photonics instrumentation, which reduces the improvement options and the number of tests that can be carried out by students [7].…”