TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing virtual and remote labs to perform automatic evaluation
AU - Farias, G.
AU - Gomez-Estern, F.
AU - De La Torre, L.
AU - Muñoz De La Peña, D.
AU - Sánchez, C.
AU - Dormido, S.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Virtual and remote laboratories are increasingly popular as learning tools in engineering education. The laboratories can help students to understand practical and theoretical concepts in a more human-readable way. It's common to ask students a report done by following a set of activities to be performed with the laboratories. Instructors can assess each student according to the report. However, the process of evaluation could require a great effort. This could be even worse if the correct answers are not unique, such as the PID parameters that stabilize a system. Here's where automatic evaluation comes in handy. Automatic evaluation can reduce the effort needed to assess student's report. This article describes an approach to add automatic evaluation to virtual and remote laboratories by using the server application Goodle, which actually performs the evaluation, and the Java package AEE, which adds this feature to the laboratories built with the authoring tool Easy Java Simulations.
AB - Virtual and remote laboratories are increasingly popular as learning tools in engineering education. The laboratories can help students to understand practical and theoretical concepts in a more human-readable way. It's common to ask students a report done by following a set of activities to be performed with the laboratories. Instructors can assess each student according to the report. However, the process of evaluation could require a great effort. This could be even worse if the correct answers are not unique, such as the PID parameters that stabilize a system. Here's where automatic evaluation comes in handy. Automatic evaluation can reduce the effort needed to assess student's report. This article describes an approach to add automatic evaluation to virtual and remote laboratories by using the server application Goodle, which actually performs the evaluation, and the Java package AEE, which adds this feature to the laboratories built with the authoring tool Easy Java Simulations.
KW - E-learning in control engineering
KW - Teaching aids for control engineering
KW - Virtual and remote labs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84866128459&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3182/20120619-3-RU-2024.00035
DO - 10.3182/20120619-3-RU-2024.00035
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866128459
SN - 9783902823014
T3 - IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
SP - 276
EP - 281
BT - 9th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education, ACE 2012 - Final Program and Book of Abstracts
PB - IFAC Secretariat
T2 - 9th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education, ACE 2012
Y2 - 19 June 2012 through 21 June 2012
ER -
