Development and evaluation of open educational resources for enhancing engineering students´ learning experience

Author

Abdulwahed, Mahmoud ; Nagy, Zoltan K. ; Crawford, Adam R.

Author_Institution

Qatar Univ., Doha, Qatar

fYear

2012

fDate

20-23 Aug. 2012

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to report on the development of control systems open educational resources. The paper reports on two control systems education software: 1) A LabVIEW based Control Systems Analysis Toolkit (CSAT) which was developed to assist lecturers in teaching control engineering and students to understand theoretical concepts; and 2) A Process Control Virtual Laboratory (PCVL), developed using LabVIEW. Both software have been created as a standalone educational application together with a detailed manual and learning activities. Existing Simulink exercises have been enhanced and specific video tutorials for the Simulink exercises have been developed. Evaluations have been conducted indicating positive impact on students.

Keywords

control engineering computing; control engineering education; control system analysis; interactive video; teaching; virtual instrumentation; CSAT; LabVIEW based control systems analysis toolkit; PCVL; Simulink exercises; control systems education software; control systems open educational resources; engineering students learning experience; learning activity; manual activity; process control virtual laboratory; standalone educational application; teaching control engineering; video tutorials; Control systems; Educational institutions; Laboratories; Software packages; Tutorials; computer simulations; control engineering; interactive tutorials; open educational resources (OER); virtual labs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2417-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2416-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TALE.2012.6360363

Filename

6360363