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| Format: | Recurso digital |
| Language: | English |
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Zenodo
2021
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14650247 |
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- With the rapid move to fully online teaching brought on by COVID-19, educators scrambled to redesign and adapt their curricula to ensure that students would receive an educational experience at least on par with what they would receive in an on-campus setting. A major concern with shifting to online delivery, particularly for engineering, is being able to replicate the benefits of experiential learning, usually supported by laboratory classes involving specific technical equipment, in an online environment. Furthermore, due to lockdown conditions and travel restrictions, students would be confined to their homes and unable to attend campus to use any laboratory equipment. An initiative was devised to send out a laboratory kit out to all students, both domestic and overseas, enrolled in a third year electronics subject that could be used to perform the laboratory exercises in their own home. Synchronous, scheduled online classes provided the necessary structure for the learning activities and demonstrators were trained to supervise these sessions and remotely perform assessment of student tasks. Technical equipment was provided to the demonstrators to specifically support this mode of teaching. This paper presents and discusses the creation of the take-home laboratory kit, the logistics involved in distributing the kit to students, the management of health and safety issues, and how the laboratory classes and tasks were modified to facilitate the take-home laboratory kits in an online environment. Results have shown an overwhelmingly positive student response to the initiative, supporting a continuation of the scheme into the future.