Remote Laboratory for Online Engineering Education: The RLAB-UOC-FPGA Case Study

Practical experiments are essential for engineering studies. Regarding the acquisition of practical and professional competences in a completely online scenario, the use of technology that allows students to carry out practical experiments is important. This paper presents a remote laboratory design...

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Autores: Monzo, Carlos, Cobo Rodríguez, Germán, Morán Moreno, Jose Antonio, Santamaría, Eugènia, García-Solórzano, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
OAI Identifier:oai:openaccess.uoc.edu:10609/137068
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10609/137068
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:remote laboratory
online learning
digital electronics
FPGA
VHDL
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Sumario:Practical experiments are essential for engineering studies. Regarding the acquisition of practical and professional competences in a completely online scenario, the use of technology that allows students to carry out practical experiments is important. This paper presents a remote laboratory designed and developed by the Open University of Catalonia (RLAB-UOC), which allows engineering students studying online to carry out practical experiments anywhere and anytime with real electronic and communications equipment. The features of the remote laboratory and students¿ satisfaction with its use are analyzed in real subjects across six semesters using a self-administered questionnaire in an FPGA-based case study. The results for the FPGA-based case study present the perception and satisfaction of students using the proposed remote laboratory in the acquisition of subject competences and content.