Teaching embedded systems and microcontrollers using scale models

Torroja, Y.; García, O.; Riesgo, Teresa; Torre, Eduardo de la

doi:10.1109/iecon.2005.1569242

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“…Some references underline the importance of videos for problem-solving [11] but it will not be necessary in this module because no practical skills are needed. Besides, some papers show the impact of practical activities [5][14] on motivation and success. In order to increase the student concrete activities, we propose to investigate this direction by coupling a webbased system for temperature control to our computer-aided module.…”

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“…Moreover, if many papers present interesting resources, very few try to evaluate them in terms of utility, easiness to understand, usability, acceptance and student motivation. For example, papers [5] and [6] give general information on the student's feedback, describing their interest or their enthusiasm.…”

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“…Numerous applications have already been built for power electronics or electric drives [1] [2], robot control [3] [4], microprocessors, microcontrollers, DSP or FPGA programming, [5] [6], EMC [7] or web-labs [8]. Only a limited set of them deal with control, see for ex.…”

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A computer aided learning module for digital control: Description, analysis, test and improvement

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2008

2008 34th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics

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This paper presents a set of pedagogical solutions, their analysis, test and improvement, for an autonomous computer aided learning module. The content of the module is an introduction to digital control, based on a real (but simulated) industrial system: the automatic air conditioning system inside a modern car. The rather theoretical contents are presented without any mathematics to our non specialist students, according to a pedagogy of the inductive type. Our added value lies in the module structure, evaluation with a pre-test and a post-test, analysis and improvement through two successive years in 2006 and 2007. The student opinions are tested about utility and easiness of the contents, utility of the computer for training, usability of the computer in an autonomous way and motivation. The analysis brings to light less large positive opinions after the course than before. These results remain stable through the years. Consequently, educators and policy makes should be careful with e-learning dissemination.

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