Trends of use of technology in engineering education

This paper describes the objectives and contents of a cost-effective curriculum for embedded system course in our university. The main aim of the course is learning to solve a real problem by developing a real system. The students learn skills to adapt this system to new scenarios. The system consists of a wireless module, a microcontroller and an application for smartphones to control lights by wireless communications. In order to motivate students, JavaME and Android, the important technologies for today's smartphones were chosen. As a result of the course, following the Bologna guidelines, the students worked cooperatively, like in a real scenario. Each group member worked in a complementary manner by analyzing the division of tasks for each student. We followed project-based methodology has provided an incremental learning to students. According to results, students responded to the course survey that they are knowledgeable on how embedded systems work after taking the course. ß 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 23:294-303, 2015; View this article online atwileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae;

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An embedded system course using JavaME and android

Rodriguez‐Sanchez

Hernández-Tamames

Borromeo

2014

“…Augmented reality (AR) has been one of the most promising tools for instruction and learning throughout the last years . Although the authors have proven that AR brings benefits into education by fostering student motivation , AR is, at the point of writing of this paper, far from being a mainstream technology in education.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Preparing augmented reality learning content should be easy: UNED ARLE—an authoring tool for augmented reality learning environments

Cubillo

Martín

Castro

et al. 2015

Self Cite

The purpose of this study was to investigate how an augmented reality learning environment system (UNED ARLE) can be used both by teachers and students to add virtual content into educational resources and how can it serve as a tool for acquiring knowledge, motivating and encouraging students. UNED ARLE is used to add contextualized virtual content (3D objects, animated 3D objects, videos, sound files and images) and the accompanying descriptions or narratives into printed material, thereby enriching existing content without any programming skills. This study recruited 44 students of advanced and intermediate cycles of vocational training and two teachers. It analyses UNED ARLE by examining the interaction between teachers and the system and by comparing the results of two groups of students. The study concludes that the students who used UNED ARLE show significantly better learning achievements compared to the traditional system. In regards to the teachers, the study shows that incorporating multimedia resources into augmented reality is directly influenced by their knowledge of this technology, due to the difficulty of developing new virtual objects. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput. Appl. Eng. Educ. Comput Appl Eng Educ 23:778–789, 2015; View this article online at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae; DOI

“…In this context, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can help. Particularly, in the case of Spain, Smartphones are widespread, and increasing to numbers that point to the arrival of ubiquitous learning in a few years [3,4].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A new open‐source technological system for real‐time assessment in the classroom

Rodriguez‐Sanchez

Torrado‐Carvajal

Vaquero

et al. 2014

Personalized feedback tools in learning is a powerful method that expert applies when helping students to optimize their learning. We propose a new educational framework to optimize the continuous evaluation process for large groups. In our system, a computer provides tests to the mobile devices of the students; they then return the answers to be corrected. The framework provides real-time knowledge about the progress of the class to the teacher and real-time feedback to the students, increasing the rate of student success. Our low-cost implementation makes it unnecessary to incorporate additional resources or to modify the infrastructure. We have tested it in several courses and conferences. We conclude with an evaluation and a discussion from different stakeholders perspectives. ß 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 9999:1-10, 2014; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae;