An Analog Electronics Mobile Course with a Competitive Learning Approach

Authors

  • Rui Neves Madeira ESTSetúbal/IPS
  • Vitor Pires ESTSetúbal/IPS
  • Octávio Pascoa Dias ESTSetúbal/IPS
  • João Martins DEE/FCT/UNL

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v4i4.1415

Keywords:

Mobile learning, mobile devices, analog electronics course, competitive learning

Abstract


In the last years several mobile learning courses have been experimented. The increasing popularity and additional features of mobile devices is one of the key reasons for mobile learning courses development. The superior portability and accessibility of those equipments makes them suitable for remote and interactive learning courses. In this context, this paper focuses on the implementation of a mobile learning framework for an analog electronics course. This course was designed as a complement to the classic analog electronics courses. This course consists of several interactive multimedia modules, at the end of which students have to answer several oriented questions. These give feedback about the learning process to the teacher, which receives SMS messages with the results. A specific module is responsible for storing and managing the answers in a server, where all the results from students are processed in a competitive learning based methodology application.

Author Biographies

Rui Neves Madeira, ESTSetúbal/IPS

teacher at the Department of Systems and Information Technology, Technology Superior School, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Setúbal, 2910-761 Portugal, and a researcher at CITI/DI, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Vitor Pires, ESTSetúbal/IPS

is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Setúbal School of Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Setúbal, 2910-761 Portugal

Octávio Pascoa Dias, ESTSetúbal/IPS

is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Setúbal School of Technology, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Setúbal, 2910-761 Portugal

João Martins, DEE/FCT/UNL

is with the CTS-UNINOVA and Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Departamento de Eng. Electrotecnica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal

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Published

2010-09-29

How to Cite

Madeira, R. N., Pires, V., Dias, O. P., & Martins, J. (2010). An Analog Electronics Mobile Course with a Competitive Learning Approach. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 4(4), pp. 37–44. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v4i4.1415

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