Title :
Towards an Analytical Framework to Enhance Teaching Support in Digital Systems Design Course
Author_Institution :
IT, Multimedia & Telecommun. Dept., Open Univ. of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
Learning digital systems design is a difficult skill that students of Bachelors on Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or Telecommunications have to acquire in the initial courses. The problem aggravates when the student is learning in a virtual environment with no face-to-face interaction with the instructor. In this case, simulators or intelligent tutoring systems, such as Veril UOC [1], are used in order to acquire this skill. This paper describes several improvements introduced in the instructor view of this framework Veril UOC. The new information that can be extracted of the system can improve the personalized feedback that the instructor can perform to the students, and, at the same time, the real-time information gives insights related to the course´s operation.
Keywords :
computer science education; educational courses; electronic engineering education; intelligent tutoring systems; teaching; telecommunication engineering education; Bachelor of Computer Science; Bachelor of Electronic Engineering; Bachelor of Telecommunications; VerilUOC; analytical framework; course operation; digital system design course; digital system design learning; information extraction; intelligent tutoring systems; personalized feedback improvement; student skills; teaching support enhancement; virtual environment; Artificial intelligence; Computer architecture; Computers; Databases; Digital circuits; Graphical user interfaces; Servers; Intelligent tutoring system; digital circuit design; teacher support framework;
Conference_Titel :
Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), 2015 Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Blumenau
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8869-3
DOI :
10.1109/CISIS.2015.20