11 articles in this issue
Gustavo R. Alves,Maria A. Marques,Maria C. Viegas,Maria C. Costa-Lobo,Rui G. Barral,Ruben J. Couto,Frederico L. Jacob,Carlos A. Ramos,Gina M. Vilão,Daniel S. Covita,Joaquim A. Alves,Pedro S. Guimaraes,Ingvar Gustavsson
The use of remote labs in undergraduate courses has been reported in literature several times since the mid 90’s. Nevertheless, very few articles present results about the learning gains obtained by students using them, especially with a large number of s... see more
Jorge Lino Alves,Teresa P. Duarte
Nowadays, the Web is a common tool for students searching information about the subjects taught in the different university courses. Although this is a good tool for the first rapid knowledge, a deeper study is usually demanded.After many years of teachin... see more
Katarina Zakova
The aim of the article is to present a new possible way of an interactive teaching. The effort is to substitute proprietary software that is commonly used in educational process by open technologies. Since the subject of this article is oriented to the en... see more
Olga Dziabenko,Javier García-Zubia,Diego Lopez-de-Ipina
Online games fulfill the basic requirements of learning environments and can provide engaging learning experience for students. The remote experimentations bring to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) students the ability to practice c... see more
Anda Zeidmane,Sarmite Cernajeva
The analysis of the scientific literature available on the types of general competences and their classification caused the authors to conclude that it is necessary to implement interdisciplinary approach in engineering education to develop competences ne... see more
Eleonore Lickl
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José Couto Marques
Three sets of teaching tools developed for Civil Engineering students are presented in this paper. The first is a didactic test frame for structural mechanics and its virtual replica. The second is an outfit for small scale seepage studies. The third is a... see more
Maria Teresa Restivo,Jose Carlos Alves,Alberto Cardoso
The main goal of the Project Experiment@Portugal is to produce a complete survey of Portuguese developments in remote and virtual labs. This knowledge will provide the conditions for joining forces in order to organize a well structured national website i... see more
Celina Pinto Leão,S. Santos,F. Ribeiro,G. Lopes
This paper describes a study carried out with K-12 students. This study is focused on understanding the motivation of these students on the use of robots in the Project Area curricular unit and to understand whether they want to continue their studies in ... see more
Maria Teresa Restivo
Ivana Simonova
The paper deals with the teaching and learning process based on the detected student´s learning style. The teaching process is built on the needs analysis questionnaire which defines students´ individual learning styles and summarizes their experience in ... see more