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- Do Students Really Understand the Difference Between Simulation and Remote Labs?Publication . Lima, Natércia; Viegas, Clara; Zannin, Marcelo; Marques, Arcelina; Alves, Gustavo R.; Marchisio, Susana; Lerro, Federico G.; Merendino, Claudio; Felgueiras, Carlos; Costa, Ricardo; Fidalgo, André; Silva, Juarez B. da; Pozzo, Maria; Dobboletta, Elsa; Gustavsson, Ingvar; Garcia-Peñalvo, FranciscoLaboratory 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, these gap does not seem to differ much with the context (country, course, academic year, course content), students’ final grades, teacher approach or implemented tasks.
- Preparando estudiantes secundarios para carreras de ingeniería: un estudio de caso utilizando el laboratorio remoto VISIRPublication . Evangelista, Ignacio; Farina, Juan; Marchisio, Susana T.; Concari, Sonia B.; Lerro, Federico G.; Pozzo, Maria; Alves, Gustavo R.; Zubía, Javier García; Hernández-Jayo, Unai; Nilsson, KristianEste trabajo describe una implementación didáctica del laboratorio remoto VISIR en el Instituto Politécnico Superior, en un curso de Física de nivel secundario con una estrategia de aprendizaje inductivo. El estudio presentado se enfoca en el análisis de la influencia de la herramienta utilizada en el entusiasmo de los estudiantes y en la percepción que ellos tienen del efecto de la utilización del laboratorio remoto sobre su aprendizaje. Los resultados indican que la implementación llevada a cabo influye positivamente en la motivación de los estudiantes y en su aprendizaje. Dada la relevancia que tiene la experimentación en la formación en ciencias en nivel secundario, lo obtenido muestra el efecto positivo que esto puede tener en la elección de una carrera universitaria de ingeniería.