Asian Journal of Distance Education

Yazarlar: Chetana KAMLASKAR

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Distance Education

Özet: Laboratory courses help students to gain insight and understanding of the real world. Use of combination of interactive simulations and hands on experience in the lab provides more promising effect as simulation provides illustrations of phenomena that are not easily visualized. Further interactive simulations allow students to do otherwise more complex and hazardous experiments, offer full control to manipulate experimental variables and observed circuit behaviors, which helps to foster a deeper understanding of the experiments. The objective of this research project was to design and to create an interactive simulation for electronics lab and evaluate its effectiveness from counselor’s outlook. For this, interactive simulation was developed on ‘Wien bridge oscillator’ which is one of the lab activities of basic electronics course offered at 4th semester of B.Tech Electronics Engineering. This paper presents a study that investigates the effect of using computer simulation. The results from the evaluation revealed that the simulation package was rated high in the areas of quality content, quality language, user friendliness, presentation flow, motivation etc. Whereas feedback, adaptation and auditory support along with visual material representation for visually disable learner, were areas identified that required enrichment. The findings from the study demonstrate that developed simulation package is a useful educational tool to improve overall effectiveness and efficiency of teaching-learning process.

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