Remote Digital Lab: Perceptions from Teachers and Students

• Felipe Almeida Universidade de São Paulo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2031-6443
• Victor Takashi Hayashi University of São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6672-4296
• Reginaldo Arakaki Universidade de São Paulo
• Edson Midorikawa Universidade de São Paulo
• Paulo Sérgio Cugnasca University of São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5675-4667
• Sergio Canovas Universidade de São Paulo

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/educomp.2021.14499

Abstract

The current period of social isolation, adopted as a measure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, made apparent the need to rethink teaching methods and techniques, in order to ensure both theoretical and practical learning by students, at a time when when face-to-face learning is restricted. This article presents the perceptions of teachers and students, which were obtained through questionnaires carried out in workshops with them, of a distance offering of an ongoing digital electronic laboratory discipline. The offering of this discipline is made possible through an infrastructure developed using Internet of Things concepts, allowing the offer of a practical discipline and respecting the imposed rules of social distance. The favorable results obtained so far were possible through a joint work between teachers, monitors, technicians and students.

Keywords: digital electronics lab, remote lab, fpga

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