Title :
Smart Learning Environments for Teaching Electronics to Students
Author :
Chowdhury, Shubhajit Roy ; Wardhan, Harsh ; Karri, Surya Kiran ; Kode, Sandhya ; Nagaraju, Kaumudi
Author_Institution :
Centre for VLSI & Embedded Syst. Technol. Int., Inst. of Inf. Technol., Hyderabad, India
Abstract :
The paper presents an alternate approach of teaching electronics by hands on activities instead of the conventional approach of classroom lectures and structured lab sessions. The current work applies the notion of Butterfly Model in developing three Learning by Doing (LbD) courses in Electronics viz. Digital System Design Using Verilog, VLSI Architectures, Topics in Embedded Systems. The effectiveness of these courses has been tested in the classroom on a population of 250 students with around 195 people giving positive feedback.
Keywords :
VLSI; computer aided instruction; educational courses; electronic engineering computing; electronic engineering education; embedded systems; hardware description languages; teaching; LbD courses; VLSI architectures; Verilog; butterfly model; classroom lectures; digital system design; electronics; embedded systems; hands on activities; learning by doing courses; smart learning environments; structured lab sessions; teaching; Architecture; Conferences; Digital systems; Embedded systems; Hardware design languages; Multiplexing; Very large scale integration; Butterfly Model; Electronics; Learning by Doing;
Conference_Titel :
Technology for Education (T4E), 2013 IEEE Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kharagpur
DOI :
10.1109/T4E.2013.50
