scholarly journals TESTING THE EFFICACY OF VIRTUAL LABS IN INDIA FOR SIMULATION OF OPTICS EXPERIMENTS AT THE UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (08) ◽  
pp. 140-149
Author(s):  
Parthasarathi a ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Virtual Labs ◽  
Important Ingredient ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
Online Laboratories ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Recent Outbreak ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Goals And Objectives

Laboratory experimentation isan important ingredient of every undergraduate program in science education. The use of virtual and remote laboratories (VRLs) offers several benefits to students, teachers, and instructors. It can mitigate the high costs of procurement of apparatus in traditional labs and can support distance and blended learning. The recent outbreak of Covid-19 has resulted in isolating the students from labs which have made such online laboratories imperative even in the traditional offline education system. They offer a possible alternative to conventional hands-on labs. Such online mode imparts freedom to teachers as well as students to define their experimental goals and objectives. This paper tests the efficacy of the Virtual Labs platform for conducting simulated experiments onlinein the field of Optics. The learning outcome of the students who employ the same to simulate experiments online is analyzed. The main objective is to explore the limitations posed to the users of such an online lab platform in terms of designing the experimentsand visualization of the experiment results and offer suggestions to make such VRLs more efficacious, versatile, and user-friendly.

The Merging of Computers and Business Communication

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan C. Roderick ◽  
Karen A. Forcht
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Business Communication ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Hands On ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The Way

Because of the availability of user-friendly software and the affordability of hardware, computers have become a common means of organizational communication. Users have had to change the way they process thoughts and ideas and to transfer them into hard-copy documentation. The integration of the computer into the business communication curriculum allows the instructor to provide a relevant and practical educational experience for college students. This article examines the importance of incorporating hands-on usage of a microcomputer in the business communication class and discusses computer applications and teaching strategies for text editing, punctuation review, and grammar assistance.

scholarly journals Mapping ribonucleotides embedded in genomic DNA to single-nucleotide resolution using Ribose-Map

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alli L. Gombolay ◽  
Francesca Storici
Keyword(s):  
Computing Time ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Sequencing Analysis ◽  
Sequencing Data ◽  
Single Nucleotide ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Nucleotide Resolution ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Single Nucleotide Resolution

ABSTRACTRibose-Map is a user-friendly, standardized bioinformatics toolkit for the comprehensive analysis of ribonucleotide sequencing experiments. It allows researchers to map the locations of ribonucleotides in DNA to single-nucleotide resolution and identify biological signatures of ribonucleotide incorporation. In addition, it can be applied to data generated using any currently available high-throughput ribonucleotide sequencing technique, thus standardizing the analysis of ribonucleotide sequencing experiments and allowing direct comparisons of results. This protocol describes in detail how to use Ribose-Map to analyze raw ribonucleotide sequencing data, including preparing the reads for analysis, locating the genomic coordinates of ribonucleotides, exploring the genome-wide distribution of ribonucleotides, determining the nucleotide sequence context of ribonucleotides, and identifying hotspots of ribonucleotide incorporation. Ribose-Map does not require background knowledge of ribonucleotide sequencing analysis and assumes only basic command-line skills. The protocol requires less than 3 hr of computing time for most datasets and about 30 min of hands-on time.

Pedagogical Characteristics Affecting Student Learning

2011 ◽  
pp. 705-712
Author(s):  
S. Manjit Sidhu
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Student Characteristics ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Student Learning Styles

Student in today’s undergraduate level classrooms often display widely varying characteristics that extremely affect learning outcome. Although student characteristics have been widely studied in the more traditional teaching and learning environments, educators have just begun exploring the applications in interactive multimedia and its associated technological techniques. This article first describes some pedagogical characteristics that could affect students in their learning and than discuss some student learning styles.

On Improvement of Graduate Mechatronics Course

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winncy Y. Du
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
State University ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
Hands On ◽  
San Jose State University ◽  
Future Topics

Colleges and Universities across the world have developed Mechatronics courses, programs, certificates, and even degrees in order to meet the increasing demands of Mechatronics products and engineers. These Mechatronics courses, mainly focusing on undergraduate level, consist of lecture presentations, well-designed laboratory experiments, and team projects. However, how to teach Mechatronics courses at graduate level remains to be an open area for discussion. The challenge is: what subjects should be addressed, at the graduate level, to closely reflect the latest Mechatronics technologies with much broad coverage and fast growing features, while distinguished from an undergraduate-level Mechatronics course. This paper discusses the approaches that the author used when teaching a graduate level Mechatronics course (ME285 Mechatronics Systems Engineering) at San Jose State University (SJSU). The course outline, laboratory experiments, and sample course projects are presented. The goal is to provide graduate students with a challenging, timely, hands-on, minds-on, and enjoyable experience in advanced Mechatronics. A suggestion of future topics for graduate Mechatronics education is also discussed.

Using round table labs to complement didactic lectures and experimental labs.

1998 ◽  
Vol 274 (6) ◽  
pp. S68 ◽  
Author(s):  
N P Nekvasil
Keyword(s):  
Round Table ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Physiological Mechanisms ◽  
Traditional Lecture ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Didactic Lecture ◽  
Physiology Students

In an effort to teach the volume of material needed by physiology students as well as to enhance the student's understanding of physiological mechanisms, a combination of teaching methods is being used at the undergraduate level. Didactic lectures are used to convey the mass of information needed, experimental labs are used to aid the student in visualizing concepts, and situational labs [called round table labs (RTLs) here] are used to provide an opportunity for the student to learn, in a risk-free setting, how to answer application questions. The RTLs utilize discussion, writing, verbal communication, and analytic thinking. The major emphasis of the RTLs is on the integrative nature of physiology. Use of the RTLs bridges, the gap among the facts learned in the didactic lecture, the hands-on learning of the experimental lab, and the need to be able to apply what is being learned. Using this combination facilitates student learning such that the student reaches a level of proficiency with the subject beyond that which can be attained with the more traditional lecture-exam format.

scholarly journals Demonstrating the Principles of Aperture Synthesis with Table- Top Laboratory Exercises

2019 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 02004
Author(s):  
J.M. Marr ◽  
A.E.E. Rogers ◽  
V.L. Fish ◽  
F.P. Wilkin ◽  
M.B. Arndt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radio Astronomy ◽  
Fourier Transforms ◽  
Aperture Synthesis ◽  
Fluorescent Light ◽  
College Level ◽  
Radio Interferometry ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Computer Activity ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Signal Sources

Many undergraduate radio astronomy courses are unable to give a detailed treatment of aperture synthesis due to time constraints and limited math backgrounds of students. We have taken a laboratory-based approach to teaching radio interferometry using a set of college-level, table-top exercises. These are performed with the Very Small Radio Telescope (VSRT), an interferometer developed at the Haystack Observatory using satellite TV electronics as detectors and compact fluorescent light bulbs as microwave signal sources. The hands-on experience provided by the VSRT in these labs allows students to gain a conceptual understanding of radio interferometry and aperture synthesis without the rigorous mathematical background traditionally required. The data are quickly and easily processed using a user-friendly data analysis Java package, VSRTI_Plotter.jar. This software can also be used in the absence of the equipment as an interactive computer activity to demonstrate an interferometer’s responses to assorted surface brightness distributions. The students also gain some familiarity with Fourier transforms and an appreciation for the Fourier relations in interferometry using another Java package, the Tool for Interactive Fourier Transforms (TIFT). We have successfully used these tools in multiple offerings of our radio astronomy course at Union College

A Canadian University “Understanding Foods” Course Improves Confidence in Food Skills and Food Safety Knowledge

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 170-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Bertrand ◽  
Alison Crerar ◽  
Janis Randall Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Food Safety ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The University ◽  
Safety Knowledge ◽  
The Impact

The impact of a hands-on foods course on undergraduate students’ food skills was examined at the University of Guelph. For a convenience sample, first- and second-year students (n = 47, 87% female) registered in the “Understanding Foods” course were recruited to participate in a survey administered on Qualtrics at the beginning of the semester and again at the end of the semester. Participants were asked questions related to demographics and food habits; additional questions on food skills, in Likert-scale format, included confidence in food preparation, food safety knowledge, and grocery shopping habits. Subscales were combined for an overall Food Skills Questions (FSQ) score and differences were determined by paired t tests. Overall, significant (P < 0.05) improvements were observed related to students’ confidence and food safety knowledge scores as well as the overall FSQ score. Students, however, rated their personal eating habits more poorly (P < 0.05) at the end of the semester. As a lack of food skills is often considered a barrier for healthy eating among students, these results signify the importance of a hands-on introductory cooking course at the undergraduate level.

The Politics of Aging: A Hands-on Approach

1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Peggy Downes
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The Media ◽  
Science Departments

Cold, irrefutable demographics clearly signal a traumatic intergenerational shift in political power. Statistics indicate that by the year 2020 political and economic clout will have drained from the middle-aged to the elderly, or more specifically, to the “young-old.” By the time the Baby Boom generation reaches retirement, its cohort could wield enough political and economic influence to alter political-campaign and corporate-marketing strategies, to tip the scales of the candidate selection process, and to dominate most decision-making centers. This process of power recognition and accumulation is now irreversible. The media, marketing departments, and campaign strategists are all struggling to redefine their target audience, to reassess the depth of political involvement, and to reshape their imagery to fit the new reality. Ironically, political science departments appear reluctant to restructure their course offerings so that this dramatic power transfer can be examined from a political perspective at the undergraduate level.We make a statement by what we don't teach—by what we fail to discuss and to dissect. Realizing this, in 1987 Santa Clara University's Center of Education on Aging, in conjunction with the political science department, initiated a senior seminar with a strictly political slant on the aging dilemma. Participants chose to function as an exploratory team in the creation of a “political profile” of the aging in the Santa Clara area. Together with their individual research projects, this profile was to serve as the core of a pilot course—a model which subsequent classes and other colleges might draw upon in structuring their own format.

scholarly journals Printed Versus Electronic Books: Uses and Preference of Mass Media Students in Lahore

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 70-78
Author(s):  
Shazia Ismail Toor ◽  
Ayesha Ashfaq ◽  
Muqaddas Ilyas
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Electronic Books ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Displacement Theory

This study is an exertion to determine the preference of university students regarding the usage of electronic books. Postulates of displacement theory were applied to find out the reasons behind students’ adoption of online mode of reading and its effects on learning outcome. The study has examined that if the printed books will be totally replaced by the electronic version or not. A sample of 150 university students studying in the Mass Communication department was selected. Survey methodology was employed to find answers to the research questions. The findings of the study revealed that students preferred using electronic books to printed books. The e-books are considered cost-friendly, easy to access and portable. With the help of findings, it was concluded that e-books had become part and parcel of the life of students, but at the same time, there would be a preference for reading printed books.

scholarly journals A Study on Use of Mathematical Programs for Design of Electronic Circuits in Cybernetic-Physical Learning Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 504-509
Author(s):  
Namrata Dewan Soni ◽  
◽  
Jyoti Bhola ◽  
Mona Bhatnagar
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Output Frequency ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Oscillator Circuit ◽  
Mathematical Programs ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
Physical Learning Environment ◽  
Undergraduate Science

The laboratory work holds a great importance for an undergraduate student of science. And during COVID -19 pandemic, when the theory classes were moved online, migrating practical classes to online mode turned out to be a challenging task. This article aims to study the use of mathematical programs as an extensive methodological approach to enhance the learning of electronic circuit designing at undergraduate level. The students were given a task of designing a well-known oscillator circuit using a mathematical program written in open source application Scilab. The values of all the components needed to design an oscillator were calculated. The circuit was then designed practically for various frequencies using the theoretically obtained component values. The obtained output frequency of oscillator circuit was within 5% variation to the theoretically obtained one. In this article, the authors captured the experience of 500 undergraduate science students studying at various colleges of University of Delhi, India via a valid online questionnaire circulated through different platforms. The response of the students was gauged and it could be inferred that mathematical programs are working as a decent replacement during these demanding times and can be used as an add-on, once the physical labs start operating back to normalcy.

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