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- Trends on Computational Thinking, Engineering Education, Technology in Medicine, Qualitative and Mixed Methods, Diversity in STEM, Lab-Based Education, Technology and Education, Gamification and Games for Learning and Smart Learning at TEEM 2022Publication . Alves, Gustavo; Arnedo-Moreno, Joan; da Silva, Juarez Bento; Conde, Miguel Á.; Costa, António Pedro; Dominguez, Angeles; García-Holgado, Alicia; García-Peñalvo, Francisco José; González-González, Carina Soledad; Juanes-Méndez, Juan A.; Lima, Natércia; Marcos-Pablos, Samuel; Marques, Arcelina; Martín-Lucas, Judith; Molina-Carmona, Rafael; Muñoz-Rodríguez, José Manuel; Peixoto, Aruquia; Pessoa, Teresa; Pinto-Llorente, Ana María; Jorge, Joaquim Armando Pires; Pozzo, M. Isabel; Sánchez-Gómez, Mª Cruz; Viegas, Clara; Villagrá-Arnedo, CarlosThe 10th edition of the Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM 2022) brings together researchers and postgraduate students interested in combining different aspects of the technology applied to knowledge society development, with particular attention to educational and learning issues. This volume includes contributions related to computational thinking, engineering education, technology in medicine, qualitative and mixed methods, diversity in STEM, lab-based education, technology and education, gamification and games for learning and smart learning.
- A 360º overview of the VISIR remote laboratory in a handbookPublication . García-Zubía, Javier; Hernandez-Jayo, Unai; Alves, GustavoThe Virtual Instrument Systems In Reality (VISIR) remote laboratory was considered the best remote laboratory in the world, by the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC), in 2015. The first operational version of the VISIR remote laboratory was deployed in 2001. It was designed by Ingvar Gus tavsson, with the collaboration of Kristian Nilsson and Johan Zackrisson. Since then, VISIR has been deployed 21 times, in 19 universities, in 14 countries, on five continents. Because of it, there is a very powerful user community that serves thousands of students and is articulated around the VISIR Special Interest Group (SIG) and the VISIR Federation. However, this community of users does not have a unique document that integrates all the knowledge created and needed by the group. This paper describes the first handbook fully dedicated to the VISIR re mote laboratory, aimed at closing that gap.
- Práticas remotas abertas do VISIR com circuitos elétricos e eletrónicosPublication . Fidalgo, André; Alves, Gustavo; Marques, Maria Arcelina; Lima, Natércia; Castro, Manuel; Castro, Manuel; García-Loro, FelixThis document describes the access to a defined set of open remote VISIR practices developed during the PILAR project. These practices are available at EU level through a federation of remote labs openly available on Internet, via a Moodle accessible set of lessons and experiments, i.e. practices [1]. The federation policies were developed during the project and allow any EU interested institution (universities, schools, content providers) to provide and access its services [2]. Presently the available content is intended for learning basic (and complex) electrical and electronics circuits, for different subjects at school/high school and at grade and master university levels, but can be expanded in the future, as seen fit by the federation. As a remote lab, VISIR presents several advantages to students with educational difficulties and geographical obstacles: it allows such students to carry out experiments the number of times they need, without having to be in the lab. These are two of the main advantages presented by remote labs over hand-on labs. In addition, and because remote labs imply real experiments with real components, they also present an additional advantage over virtual labs (simulations). The only problem, addressed by the PILAR project, is supporting all the experiments that are done, in a single semester, in all the courses that involve electrical and electronics circuits (implementable in VISIR), in a single institution. Although quite powerful, one VISIR platform has limitations regarding the total number of different components it can have, while also allowing for all possible interconnections. The VISIR federation and the developed PILAR Moodle repository allows for a structured and combined service benefiting from the individual offer of each VISIR node, making all of them available through the federation of those same nodes.
- Extending the IEEE 1451.0 Std. to serve distributed weblab architecturesPublication . Costa, Ricardo J.; Alves, Gustavo R.; Zenha-Rela, Mário; Costa, Ricardo; Alves, Gustavo; Restivo, Teresa; Cardoso, Alberto; Alves, José C.The appliance of the IEEE1451.0 Std. into the remote experimentation domain may be an interesting solution not only to develop reconfigurable weblab infrastructures, but also to improve the way infrastructures, and their experiments, may be shared. Therefore, this paper proposes a distributed weblab architecture supported on a IEEE1451 concept named Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS). It is suggested the use of a new TEDS, named LabTEDS, to provide information about weblab infrastructures namely, web location, technical resources and type of experiments described according a metadata model specification defined by the Lab2go project. The access to the architecture is made through the IEEE1451.0 HTTP API extended with new functions. At the end of the paper a thin implementation of the architecture is presented, supported on a cross-mapping established between the HTTP functions and the low-level commands, which are used to control the weblabs.
- As trajetórias de constituição docente para a educação profissional: um estudo da docência na EngenhariaPublication . Urbanetz, Sandra T.; Alves, Gustavo R.; Alves, GustavoAnálise da trajetória acadêmica e profissional de professores de Engenharia em diferentes instituições no Brasil e em Portugal.
- Uso compartido de módulos educativos para circuitos eléctricos y electrónicos del laboratorio remoto VISIRPublication . Marchisio, Susana T.; Concari, Sonia B.; Lerro, Federico; de Arregui, Gastón S.; Plano, Miguel; Merendino, Claudio; Alves, Gustavo R.; Alves, Gustavo; Lerro, FedericoVISIR (Virtual Instruments Systems In Reality) es un laboratorio remoto que ha sido desarrollo en el Instituto de Tecnología de Blekinge de Suecia, de enorme difusión a nivel mundial. El objetivo de este trabajo es compartir en el ámbito de la comunidad RUEDA, las motivaciones, fundamentos, avances y proyección, con particular implicancia en Argentina, de un Proyecto Erasmus+: “Módulos Educativos para Circuitos Eléctricos y Electrónicos. Teoría y práctica siguiendo una metodología de enseñanza-aprendizaje basada en la investigación y apoyada por VISIR+”, financiado por la Comisión de la Unión Europea en la convocatoria 2015, con la coordinación del Instituto Politécnico de Porto. El proyecto se encuentra en desarrollo y es llevado a cabo por un consorcio de instituciones de educación superior, europeas y latinoamericanas, con posibilidad de incorporar adherentes. Destacan los objetivos estratégicos y de innovación, tanto en lo tecnológico como en lo educativo, alcanzables mediante la colaboración, a los fines de generar, por un lado, cambios metodológicos en la enseñanza de temas centrales en carreras de Ingeniería y, por otro la ampliación de posibilidades de experimentación remota compartiendo recursos.
- Considerations on the implementation of a non-traditional laboratory for rock characterization testsPublication . Pizarro, Sónia; Alves, Gustavo R.; García-Peñalvo, FranciscoNon-traditional laboratories have become part of today’s teach ing/learning process, particularly in engineering. In Geotechnical Engineering, as in other experimental-based courses, laboratory tests play a major role, particularly in the mechanics of rocks and soils. Considering the reduced number of non-traditional laboratories, particularly for physical-mechanical rock characterization tests, it is urgent to increase the offer of non-traditional laboratories and investigate associated didactic applications capable of helping students acquire the right level of experimental skills in this specific engineering field. This paper aims to answer the question, frequently mentioned in the literature, “Are non-traditional labs as effective in achieving learning outcomes as traditional labs?” Conducting a cross-analysis of some of the main differences between the non-traditional laboratories, their strengths and weaknesses, all practical rock characterization tests, and the associated learning objective(s) to each will allow an informed choice of the type of non-traditional laboratories best suited to the specificities of the tests. In conclusion we can say that a well-designed non-traditional laboratory can be as practical as a traditional hands-on laboratory when measuring content knowledge. Some essential issues still need to be adequately addressed, such as operation and maintenance costs, which may affect the choice of the type of non-traditional laboratory.
- Automatic assessment using VISIR-DBPublication . Hernandez-jayo, Unai; Garcia-Zubia, Javier; Cuadros, Jordi; Serrano, Vanessa; Fernandez-Ruano, Laura; Alves, GustavoVISIR is a remote laboratory oriented to analogue electronics. There are several copies of VISIR around the world (Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, India, Australia, Morocco, …) that are being used by thousands of students. It is well known that VISIR allows teachers and students to create and measure real electrical and electronics circuits through a useful interface and a complex hardware & software platform. But at this moment there is not available at the interface neither offline, any feedback from the VISIR to teachers/students about the performance of the user during the experimentation. This article pre sents the use of the VISIR Dashboard (VISIR-DB) that the teacher can perform to know the achievement of his students using the VISIR remote laboratory.
- VISIR+ project follow-up after four years: Educational and research impactPublication . Pavani, Ana M.B.; Viegas, Clara; Lima, Natércia; Alves, Gustavo R.; Marques, Arcelina; Fidalgo, André; Jacob, Frederico; Silva, Juarez B.; Marchisio, Susana; Schlichting, Luís; Soria, Fernando; Lerro, Federico; Barbosa, William de S.; Steinbach, Reginaldo; Mafra, PauloThis full paper addresses an innovative practice in the experimental teaching/learning in Engineering courses. Engineering is a practical profession where doing is the key. Experimental work and the immersing in the lab environment (hands-on, simulations, remote labs) helps students to construct and strengthen their knowledge. The VISIR+ Project (ERASMUS+), launched in November 2015 and concluded in Abril 2018, intended to disseminate VISIR – Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (the most used remote lab in electric and electronics area of expertise) in Latin American countries (Argentina and Brazil) by installing a system in five Higher Educational Institutions. It involved 13 educational institutions, 25 different courses, several of them with successive didactical implementations. It comprised 49 teachers and 1,595 students. During the project about 27 research papers were published disseminating the projects’ results. At the end of the project, the expectations were that the impact could remain in the long-term promoting VISIR remote lab and the dissemination of good practices. The project ended four years ago, and each installed VISIR system continued to promote teaching diversification using different experimental resources (including VISIR) then contributing to student learning. The aim of this work is to understand the impact of these didactical practices while using VISIR in these last years. This study was based on a questionnaire complemented with an interview with each person of contact. The results point to an increase of VISIR’s usage in almost all institutions, particularly during the pandemic period. Overall, the educational impact involved more than 23 different institutions, 45 courses (most of them with several editions), 118 teachers and 4,866 students. The impact in the scientific community implied additional 31 publications with VISIR as its main core. These numbers support the sustainability of the VISIR+ project over the years, positively contributing to a more diversified engineering education of these students and their experimental competences development.
- VISIRplus project intermediate technical reportPublication . Alves, Gustavo R.