Interactive Student Engagement Using Wireless Handheld Devices
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Computer Engineering Computer Science Electrical Engineering Engineering Education Research Information Technology Mechatronics Mobile Learning Software Engineering |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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Audio |
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Frances FLOOD Lykourgos PETROPOULAKIS |
| Description: | Published in Int. J. Engng Ed. Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 46-55, 2008. Part of special issue in IJEE on Mobile Technologies in Engineering Education (II). Abstract: "This paper presents an initial design of a pilot wireless Classroom Communication System (CCS) used for continuous and interactive engagement of students aiming at enhancing student critical thinking, extending attention span and enabling better student assessment. The system was designed mostly for engineering students and is intended to be used in lectures, tutorials or laboratories. The design should ultimately enable students to use, amongst other software, standard engineering packages such as MATLAB, PSpice, or Electronic WorkBench to construct designs, perform simulations and obtain answers to design problems using just wireless handheld pocket PCs. The system is based upon a CSCW system originally designed to be used anytime during lectures or tutorials and may involve the guidance and personal intervention of a lecturer or tutor. It is intended to support several modes and allows group or one-to-one personal tutoring. The system may also serve as a means of assessing individual student performance and in assisting lecturing staff with other tasks." |
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| Keywords: | wired classroom; handhelds; pocket PC; assessment PDA |
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Mobile Technologies in Engineering Education (II) |
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Conclusions: "The work we have presented here is an experimental system aiming at introducing Interactive Classroom Learning Environment through the use of wireless PDAs. The approach is based on a modified CSCW screen-sharing system. The development was provided for Windows-based servers and a series of PDAs running Windows CE and accessing the server through wireless access points serving a maximum of 20 users at speeds up to 11Mbits per second. The approach used was both a technology feasibility study as well as cost-cutting exercise. We used one copy of the software (in this case MATLAB) per server and users took turns to access the server. This implied that the tests and exercises had to be simple and needed careful coordination and planning. It also meant that more complex designs involving GUIs such as Simulink could not be used in these trials as the time taken for users to interact with such interfaces would have been prohibitive. A partial solution to Interactive student engagement 53 this problem is presented in [10] which could, with adaptation, allow a Simulink-type system to become available for PDAs. In the general context however, adaptations for other systems such as Electronic WorkBench and PSpice will also have to be found. A possible approach would be to generate reduced versions of such software which would then create files that can be executed in larger servers as described here. With PDAs becoming more powerful and increased storage capacity this could be possible very soon." |
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| Publication Date: | January 2008 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.ijee.ie/latestissues/Vol24-1/s8_ijee2015.pdf |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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International Journal of Engineering Education
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