Published Numbers > FEB 2011 VOL. 6 NÚMERO/NUMBER 1

Title- A computer architecture to use AIBO robots to teach Artificial Intelligence

Abstract- Student motivation and involvement are two key factors to achieve educational objectives. For this reason, it is essential that students are made aware of the possible practical applications of the theoretical contents being taught. To this end, we have adapted the laboratory sessions of the Artificial Intelligence module so that students can bring into practice the concepts learned. By using AIBO robots we have designed teaching materials based on active learning, achieving a greater motivation and a significant improvement of student’s academic performance. This has been done by re-designing three of the laboratory sessions so that students make use of the robots. To avoid the time required to learn the proprietary programming environment, we have implemented a series of interfaces to ease the interaction with the robot and allow the use of any programming language. In this article we present the hardware and software architecture used to fulfill this objective and we describe the three laboratory session in which this is used.

Index Terms- AIBO, Artificial intelligence, Education, Mobile robots

Title- Providing personalized t-learning with T-Maestro: a pilot experience

Abstract- This paper introduces a platform to support the provision of pedagogical units especially designed to Interactive Digital TV. We have developed an authoring tool to create the educative content according to both the technical and social peculiarities of this new media. Besides, a set of software modules were also set up to support the suitable broadcasting and visualization in the receiver device. As TV learning is mainly casual, personalization plays an essential role to provide particularized content offer to each student to support more appealing learning experiences.

Index Terms- T-learning, adaptation, personalization, IDTV, learning systems

Title- Analysis and Comparison of Open Student Models

Abstract- This article is focused on the study of Open Student Models, area that takes on the opening of Student Models’ characteristics in Technology Based Learning Systems. In this work a review of the state of the art on Open Student Models is performed. Different approximations of the literature are compared against an opening guide that authors have defined. This guide is formulated on three main parts: learning domain, learning state and progress and student profile.

Index Terms- Technology Based Learning Systems, Student Models, Open Student Models, comparative Study

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Title- Education in Electronics in Spain for the new degrees related with the Telecommunication Engineering

Abstract- This communication presents a first outlook of the recent changes that have been produced in teaching and earning of the "Electronics" subject as a consequence of the general change of higher education in Europe due to the creation of the European Higher Education Area. Many papers about the changes promoted by the Bologna Declaration and its impact in higher education have been written, yet there are still few initiatives that address how the curricular subjects are being adapted and how they contribute to the general change. It is time to start doing it, once the new official degrees have been verified and approved and most Universities have begun the starting process of the new Curricula in the 2010-2011 academic year, implementing its new first year. This paper addresses the change that Electronics teaching is facing from three levels. In the first one the new situation created by the Universities, Schools and Degrees Registry (Registro de Universidades, Centros y Títulos, RUCT) is analyzed. In a second level the Electronics competences which all graduates in the different areas of Telecommunications Engineering must have are presented. In the third place a first quantitative and qualitative analysis is performed, based on the currently available information on how the learning modules planned in the verified Reports are being deployed in specific Electronics subjects and how the learning outcomes are defined to achieve the competences in this area. The study focuses on the area of Telecommunications, which is one of the major Engineering areas in which Electronics is a key subject in the curriculum of the degree.

Index Terms- European Higher Education Area, EHEA, Electronics training, Electronics competences, New graduate degrees, Telecommunications engineering, Learning outcomes

Title- Virtual instrumentation applied to digital control systems

Abstract- In this paper it is described the performance of an electronic book implemented as a hypertext, which allows to apply an active methodology of different types of digital regulators applied to the industrial background, towards design and implementation in a LabVIEW environment. Main aspects of the study are the following: I) To approach and justify the process to solve the continuous regulators' discretizing. II) To list different discretizing methods. III) To apply the numeric integration method for the discretizing of different regulators, advancing – delaying nets, etc. IV) A control system design and operative checking through simulation or action in a real system.

Index Terms- Hypertext, automation systems, digital control systems analysis and design, virtual instrumentation, LabVIEW.

Title- Platform for Teaching Wireless and Sensor Networks Technologies based on the Open Hardware System called Openmoko

Abstract- Recent progress in sensor networks and wireless systems provides serious difficulties to the higher education community for teaching these technologies. The complexity is so high that no practical work content is normally found in the related learning process. In this paper, a novel platform is presented for teaching Bluetooth–based wireless sensor networks and embedded systems. The system is based on a commercial “Open Hardware” device called Openmoko, a personal computer and a suite of software applications, with the objective of introducing a learner–centre approach in aforementioned fields, based on laboratory works in subjects assigned to the Telecommunication Engineering degree and the Electronic Engineering Department of the University of Seville.

Index Terms- Laboratory Education, Sensor Networks, Wireless Technologies, Bluetooth

Title- SIAPE, Integrated System for Learning Electronics for Technicians and Engineers

Abstract- This article describes SIAPE, an integrated learning system improving engineering teaching and learning of Electronics. SIAPE combines a tutorial with a virtual laboratory and a self assessment tool to achieve a self-learning system. The tutorial is a hypermedia document where each theoretical concept is associated with at least one virtual experiment facilitating not only theoretical learning but also linking the different concepts of the technology and combining them with a virtual laboratory. The virtual laboratory is made up of a set of virtual experiments with a user-friendly graphic interface and interactive simulated electronic instruments relating practical and theoretical concepts. The self-assessment tool combines a test with each experiment of the virtual laboratory. The whole system matches the constructivist theory and constitutes an interactive computer based complex tool.

Index Terms- Integrated learning system, self-assesment tool, virtual laboratory