Utilizing Portable Learning Technologies to Improve Student Engagement and Retention

Carlson, Charles; Peterson, Garrett; Day, Dwight D.

doi:10.1109/te.2019.2941700

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“…student-related, lecture-related, content-related, and instructor-related challenges) faced by embedded engineering education [1]. This is in agreement with [2] who reported that the use of a Arduino Nano Board and USB powered portable instrumentation devices in laboratory exercises positively affected student confidence and improved the retention of students who took the course. Besides, various open source software and cloud platforms were evaluated in teaching Internet of things (IoT) course [3].…”

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An Integration of Open-Source Resources in Distance Teaching for Real-Time Embedded System Using Arduino Microcontroller and Freertos

Chia¹

2022

IJIE

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Distance learning has become a crucial alternativein education system worldwide since the Covid-19 pandemic happened. An affordable and accessible solution is essentialto enable a quality remote teaching and learning experience for each student. Real-Time Embedded System (RTES) is about applying real-time system in an embedded system (e.g., microcontroller) in ways that both logical and temporal requirements are fulfilled. A special attention shall be on the temporal response analysis so that students can have a clear distinction between microcontrollers with and without real-time system.Since there is a lack of accessible traceable studies about how to utilize the open-source platform inintroducing the key RTES concepts, this study aims to evaluate the feasibility of an integration of open-source resources (i.e., SimSo simulator, Arduino platform and FreeRTOSAPI) in teaching RTES remotely and to provide real-time learning experience about RTES concepts without additional components or wiring out of school. First, each student was introduced to the ways to integrate existing open-source resources so that each of them could develop RTES in their placesusing a FreeRTOS compatible microcontroller.RTES concepts of task, hyperperiod, task scheduling, pre-emption,static-priority scheduling algorithms, and mutual exclusion in resource sharing were delivered using the proposed infrastructure. Results show that an obvious context switch could be observed when pre-emption happened. Finding indicates that the proposed integration was useful for students to understand the complex RTES concepts e.g., task scheduling, pre-emption, and mutuallyexclusion.Since positive responses were received from students in two consecutive semesters, the proposed infrastructure is an affordable and accessible distance learning alternative in assisting students to understand RTES concepts.

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An Integration of Open-Source Resources in Distance Teaching for Real-Time Embedded System Using Arduino Microcontroller and Freertos

Chia¹

2022

IJIE

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“…Based on this opinion, it can be said that the retention of students with high and low academic ability can increase if the five conditions are actually implemented. Thus, even students with low academic ability could have better retention if they get these five conditions well [19,26].…”

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Enhancing Cognitive Retention of Different Academic Abilities Undergraduate Students Through PBLRQA Strategy

Listiana,

Bahri,

Jamaluddin

et al. 2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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The success of learning is generally measured by how far students master the concepts being taught. However, to find out the effectiveness of the learning strategy, it is necessary to analyze whether the concepts taught can be retained in students' long-term memory (retention). This research is a quasi-experimental research, which aims to increase the cognitive retention of students with different academic abilities through the PBLRQA strategy in Animal Physiology lectures. The research design used a pretest-posttest non-equivalent control group design. The sample of this study was all first-year biology students of academic year 2020/2021 with a total of 115 people spread over 4 classes. Student cognitive retention is measured by using essay questions. Research data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics with two-way covariate analysis (ANA-COVA). The results showed that the PBLRQA strategy was an effective learning strategy to increase students' cognitive retention. The percentage of improvement in students' retention from pretest to posttest through the PBLRQA strategy and traditional strategy was 4.57% and 0.57%, respectively. The Least Significance Difference (LSD) test showed differences in cognitive retention, the interaction of PBLRQA strategy -upper academic ability was significantly higher 14.70% than the PBLRQA-lower academic ability, while the traditional-upper academic ability strategy was significantly higher 5.50% than the traditional strategy -lower academic ability. Based on the results of the study, it was concluded that the PBLRQA strategy could increase the cognitive retention of students with different academic abilities.

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“…Modeling and simulation experience provide students with a better understanding of the modeling/design and analysis process of the problem because students learn how to plan, define the concepts and develop the project. To pass the barriers of not having access to the real equipment, several universities introduced in some courses with portable learning technologies as Arduino Nano [43], the Texas Instruments LaunchPad [44], and Raspberry Pi [45]. The traditional laboratory sessions are complemented also with the virtual or remote laboratories, which allow the students to realize their laboratory experiments from distance [46,47].…”

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Emerging Trends in Industrial Electronics: A Cross-Disciplinary View

Lucía

She

Chen

et al. 2021

EEE Ind. Electron. Mag.

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Industrial Electronics (IE) discipline includes a wide variety of technical areas devoted to the application of electronics and electrical sciences for the enhancement of industrial and manufacturing processes. It inherently acts as a key enabling technology for a diverse number of applications and includes latest developments in intelligent and computer control systems, robotics, factory communications and automation, flexible manufacturing, data acquisition and signal processing, vision systems, and power electronics, among others. This makes IE inherently multidisciplinary, and with many interdisciplinary synergies, playing a key role as an enabling technology in multiple domestic, biomedical, transportation, and industrial applications. This paper covers recent advances and future trends in those areas that support the cross disciplinary view of industrial electronics, including electronic systems on chip, standards, resilience and security matters, human factors and educational aspects. The main current state-of-the-art technologies and techniques are presented, and their future trends and challenges are discussed, focusing on the cross disciplinary view inherent to industrial electronics.

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Utilizing Portable Learning Technologies to Improve Student Engagement and Retention

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

An Integration of Open-Source Resources in Distance Teaching for Real-Time Embedded System Using Arduino Microcontroller and Freertos

An Integration of Open-Source Resources in Distance Teaching for Real-Time Embedded System Using Arduino Microcontroller and Freertos

Enhancing Cognitive Retention of Different Academic Abilities Undergraduate Students Through PBLRQA Strategy

Emerging Trends in Industrial Electronics: A Cross-Disciplinary View

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