scholarly journals Case study: Employing Agile Tools in Teaching Product Development to Mechatronics Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sondre Sanden Tørdal ◽  
Andreas Klausen ◽  
Mette Mo Jakobsen
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Management System ◽  
Learning Management System ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
Source Control ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Software Documentation ◽  
Development Course ◽  
Standard Learning

Agile tools such as Git are widely used in the industry for source control, collaboration and documentation. Such tools have been implemented in a mechatronic product development course to allow for easier collaboration between students. The course content is mainly provided using a GitLab Pages webpage which hosts software documentation and scripts. This course was first changed in 2019 to include the development of an autonomous strawberry picker. However, the use of standard learning management system and lecture slides provided a cumbersome experience for the students. Therefore, these agile tools were presented in 2020 version to improve the course. In this paper, the course content is detailed, and student feedback from both years are discussed to reveal the outcome of the changes.

Digital Learning Management Systems Case Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-168
Author(s):  
Abdeleh Bassam Al Amoush ◽  
Kamaljeet Sandhu
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Learning Management System ◽  
Learning Management Systems ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Learning Management

Digital learning management systems (DLMSs) are an important and necessary educational tool for learning activities. Universities are using the Digital LMS tools that are unique to their environment. Different universities have different DLMS tools that are software driven and allow the users (management, instructors, and students) to use them for regular tasks. This research discusses the qualitative data collected using a case study methodology. In this research, a case study design was selected for the qualitative methodology and semi-structured interviews were employed as the data collection method. This case study is based on a deanship of a university implementing a digital learning management system in the country of Jordan. The research provides an analysis of the interviews to gain insights into instructors' perspectives regarding the factors influencing the implementation of the digital learning management system in a higher education sector.

scholarly journals New Weighted Clustering Approach to Map and Prioritise Learning Knowledge Objects towards Learning Approaches

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (06) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Sai Sabitha ◽  
Deepti Mehrotra ◽  
Abhay Bansal
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Management System ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Course Content ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Knowledge Objects ◽  
Learning Management

To have a unique learning experience and a high learning impact, diverse courses should be incorporated in e-Learning. Learning Management System, a tool in e-Learning manages and delivers content to users. Learning Objects (LO), the course content is the fundamental unit of Learning Management System. Knowledge Object of Knowledge Management System can also be a viable resource in technology supported learning. A learning scenario for a given learner has to be identified. The course content (LO) has to match their learning skills. Data mining techniques can be widely used to find similar objects and K-Mean clustering technique can be used to produce more consistent clusters. The clusters can have strong and similar concepts of Learning Knowledge Objects. A new algorithm, a weighted cosine distance that gives real-valued distances between instances which further modifies the structure of the feature space is used for prioritising objects in clusters. These objects can be further mapped to learning approaches of the users. An experiment is conducted by using Learning and Knowledge Objects to understand the effectiveness of the weighted measure, thereby a personalized holistic learning environment is provided to the learners.

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