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Interactive Workbook for Effective Virtual Laboratories

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Information Systems and Management Science (ISMS 2020)

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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced academic institutions to switch from traditional teaching-learning to fully digital mode. The traditional programming lab sessions are replaced by video lectures, notes, and assignment submission through LMS. Manual grading and debugging of the program results in delayed feedback. The existing auto-graders are designed to check the programs’ correctness, and they cannot enhance learning. The interactive workbooks we propose are similar to the popular Jupyter notebooks but oriented more towards enhancing the teaching-learning process and providing immediate feedback. The survey results showed that 70% of the students believed that interactive workbooks enabled them to understand the problem and made them capable of solving it in incremental steps. 65% of the instructors added that interactive workbooks could supplement the physical lab sessions’ teaching-learning process.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Federal Institute of Science and Technology (FISAT), TM Hormis Nagar, Mookkannoor P O, Angamaly, Ernakulam, Kerala, India

    S. Krishna Bhat, Shemin Anto, Narayanan V. Eswar, Shreyas S. Kumar & G. Pankaj Kumar

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  1. CIS Dept, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Lalit Garg

  2. Department of Computer Science, Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India

    Nishtha Kesswani

  3. CIS Dept, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Joseph G. Vella

  4. Faculty of ICT, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Peter A. Xuereb

  5. The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Man Fung Lo

  6. Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology, Cabanatuan City, Philippines

    Rowell Diaz

  7. Computer Engg, CUCRID Bldg, #A301, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  8. Lm Thapar School of Management, Thapar University, Mohali, India

    Vipul Gupta

  9. Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, India

    Princy Randhawa

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Bhat, S.K., Anto, S., Eswar, N.V., Kumar, S.S., Kumar, G.P. (2022). Interactive Workbook for Effective Virtual Laboratories. In: Garg, L., et al. Information Systems and Management Science. ISMS 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 303. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86223-7_6

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