Hands-on experiences of undergraduate students in Automatics and Robotics using a virtual and remote laboratory

Computers and Education

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2451-2461

  Jara, Carlos A ^a   Candelas, Francisco A ^a   Puente, Santiago T ^a   Torres, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blended learning; E learning; Interactive environments; Robotics; Virtual and remote laboratories

Indexed keywords

BLENDED LEARNING; CLASSROOM TEACHING; EDUCATIONAL METHODOLOGIES; EDUCATIONAL PLATFORMS; EFFECTIVE TEACHING; HANDS-ON EXPERIENCES; IN-SITU; INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS; ITS EFFICIENCIES; LABORATORY COURSE; LEARNING BY DOING; LOW COSTS; REMOTE LABORATORIES; REMOTE ROBOTIC LABORATORIES; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; WEB-BASED EXPERIMENTATION;

E-LEARNING; EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORIES; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TEACHING; USER INTERFACES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79960893084     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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