A web-based tool for a Power Electronics course

Pozo-Ruz, Ana; Aguilera, Francisco David Trujillo

doi:10.1109/fintdi.2011.5936417

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“…Usually, it is very difficult to illustrate these concepts in a traditional classroom using static slides and blackboard [7]. In this work, the authors have developed a set of multimedia interactive tools for Power Electronics [8], gathered in an educational computer-aided platform, which can be used as online teaching tool. The platform takes advantages of the potential of Internet and multimedia tools for educational purposes, such as interactivity, dynamism, accessibility any place or any time.…”

Section: E-learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For each new implemented interactive tool [8] [9] [10], four questionnaires have been implemented [18], for both students and lecturers, to validate these educational resources and their correct adaptation. Three of these questionnaires are approached for students; and the fourth questionnaire is addresses to some lecturers, defined in an expert group of five members.…”

Section: A Educational Software Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards student wellness in the new teaching/learning process of power electronics

Trujillo-Aguilera

Pozo-Ruz

Martin-Graciani

et al. 2013

2013 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL)

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Nowadays, university education has undergone a significant change to new models that encourage the active role of students in the learning process. Moreover, the European Higher Education Area means an important change in the teaching/learning process: it is necessary to involve more efficiently to the students and encourage their independent study and active participation. This new framework includes the increase in the development and use of new Information and Communication Technology in education and the analysis of the academic performance of students and their sensation of engagement and burnout. In the particular case of Power Electronics, a new teaching methodology, based on a set of new software multimedia interactive tools, is designed and developed to use for the teaching and learning of this subject. The evaluation process consists of several questionnaires: for both students and lecturers, in order to evaluate the quality of these multimedia interactive tools; and only for students, so as to check their stress levels. This subjective information will be complemented with a detailed analysis of the obtained marks of the students and with the sensation of engagement and burnout, measured in terms of academic stress. Finally, a comparison between theses students and the previous ones that could not use these new educational tools will determine the achievement of the foreseen objectives.

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Section: E-learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Educational Software Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards student wellness in the new teaching/learning process of power electronics

Trujillo-Aguilera

Pozo-Ruz

Martin-Graciani

et al. 2013

2013 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL)

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“…1): 1) Introductory lectures: interactive e-book version of the text book written by authors [23] that includes the study of power semiconductors, the different power electronics converter topologies as well as the main industrial applications and home power electronics applications. This e-book has been completed with interactive animations in Adobe Flash to study, in each period, the analytically control parameter values and graphical waveforms [24], [25]. Both online tools complement the traditional presentation techniques: blackboard, transparencies and slides.…”

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Power Electronics Open-Source Educational Platform

Pozo-Ruz¹,

Aguilera²,

Moron³

et al. 2012

Journal of Power Electronics

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Learning Power Electronics is essential in both electrical and electronic engineering fields and the introductory courses are similar in many universities. Taking this premise into account, an educational computer-aided platform for power electronics will be presented in this paper. This educational platform includes an e-book, a set of power electronics animations, Java simulations, as well as several hands-on training sessions. The main advantages of this platform are twofold. First, all necessary teaching tools are combined on a single platform. And secondly, access to this platform is available free of charge and with no complicated registration requirements. In addition to traditional teaching techniques, the use of this platform has demonstrated an increase in student participation and has consistently improved their academic performance. Data consist of surveys, which guarantee both reliability and validity through psychometric techniques.

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