An approach to complement electronics courses using virtual environment

This paper describes an online laboratory for a course on electronic devices and circuits aimed at complementing classroom teaching of undergraduate courses. The development is based on four levels of teaching, viz., lecture notes, interactive tutorials, simulation exercises, and performing a real experiment remotely. The current facility has been developed to support an undergraduate theory course, “Electronic Devices and Circuits” as a pre-laboratory session for a regular on-site laboratory. It can be also used as an alternative to a traditional laboratory especially for distance education programs, or for interdisciplinary first year courses not having lab component. The facility has also been developed as a teaching tool for classroom demonstrations.