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Mobile Arduino Robot Programming Using a Remote Laboratory in UNAD: Pedagogic and Technical Aspects

Experience Using a Remote Mobile Robotics Laboratory at UNAD

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The National Open and Distance University - UNAD, is an autonomous university entity of the national order, with special regime. It has 8 zones and 64 education centers. By using the first remote mobile robotics laboratory based on the Arduino platform and incorporating the LabsLand Arduino Robot, an alternative that in addition to reducing costs allows coverage for students who are located in distant areas and who have difficulty accessing laboratory practices. It is planned to replace the use of simulators or loose microcontrollers, without any robotic structure, by incorporating this new technological tool. The educational approach it is due to the need to incorporate “e-learning” activities and laboratory practices in the course of microprocessors and microcontrollers during the month of October and the first week of November and measure the technological and pedagogical impact on open and distance education. For this purpose, 110 students participated and from those, 78 students conducted the survey subsequently the results evaluated in the activities are compared with the rest of the students who carry out traditional activities and a matrix of indicators is obtained, that allows measuring the educational impact on the use of technological tools compared to traditional laboratory activities and practices in the course of microprocessors and microcontrollers.

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Buitrago, P.A. et al. (2021). Mobile Arduino Robot Programming Using a Remote Laboratory in UNAD: Pedagogic and Technical Aspects. In: Auer, M., May, D. (eds) Cross Reality and Data Science in Engineering. REV 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1231. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52575-0_14

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