Experience with Abrupt Transition to Remote Teaching of Embedded Systems

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14330%2F22%3A00126231" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14330/22:00126231 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3502718.3524821" target="_blank" >https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3502718.3524821</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3502718.3524821" target="_blank" >10.1145/3502718.3524821</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Experience with Abrupt Transition to Remote Teaching of Embedded Systems

Original language description

Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, many university courses had to abruptly transform to enable remote teaching. Adjusting courses on embedded systems and micro-controllers was extra challenging since interaction with real hardware is their integral part. We start by comparing our experience with four basic alternatives of teaching embedded systems: 1) interacting with hardware at school, 2) having remote access to hardware, 3) lending hardware to students for at-home work and 4) virtualizing hardware. Afterward, we evaluate in detail our experience of the fast transition from traditional, offline at-school hardware programming course to using remote access to real hardware present in the lab. The somewhat unusual remote hardware access approach turned out to be a fully viable alternative for teaching embedded systems, enabling a relatively low-effort transition. Our setup is based on existing solutions and stable open technologies without the need for custom-developed applications that require high maintenance. We evaluate the experience of both the students and teachers and condense takeaways for future courses. The specific environment setup is available online as an inspiration for others.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE ’22)

ISBN

9781450392013

ISSN

1942-647X

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

386-392

Publisher name

ACM

Place of publication

Dublin, Ireland

Event location

Dublin, Ireland

Event date

Jul 11, 2022

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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