Using a 3-tier Training Model for Effective Exchange of Good Practices in as ERASMUS+ Project

VISIR+ is an Erasmus+ project that aims to develop educational modules for electric and electronic circuits theory and practice following an enquiry-based teaching and learning methodology. The project has installed five new VISIR remote labs in Higher Education Institutions located in Argentina and Brazil, to allow students doing more experiments and hence acquire better experimental skills, through a combination of traditional (hands-on), remote and virtual laboratories. A key aspect for the success of this project was to motivate and train teachers in the underpinning educational methodology. As such, VISIR+ adopted a 3-tier training process to effectively support the use of VISIR in the Institutions that received it. This process is based on the “train the trainer” approach, which required the participating partner institutions to identify and engage a number of associated partners, interested in using their newly installed remote lab. To measure the quality of the training process, the same satisfaction questionnaire was used in all training actions. This paper presents a detailed description of the training actions along with the analysis of the satisfaction questionnaire results. Major conclusions are that the quality level of the training process remained practically the same across all training actions and that trainees sometimes considered the practical use of the VISIR remote lab as difficult, irrespectively of where and when the training action took place.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Open spaces and public life spatialities: a conceptual proposal to the research of the country's urban open spaces system

Este texto é o resultado da primeira etapa de trabalhos da fase número quatro do Projeto de pesquisa Quapá – Quadro do Paisagismo no Brasil, em desenvolvimento desde 1994 no Laboratório da Paisagem da FAUUSP, e que se voltará para o estudo teórico e metodológico dos sistemas de espaços livres na cidade brasileira, tendo como foco um conjunto das principais cidades de médio e grande porte do país. São apresentados conceitos que nortearão o novo processo de pesquisa, destacando-se os de espaço livre, sistema de espaços livres e áreas verdes.This paper is the result of the first part of the newest stage of projeto Quapá – Quadro do Paisagismo no Brasil in developing at FAUUSP. Nowadays the main subject of the research is the discussion of the adequate concepts to the open and green spaces in a brazilian urban reality and to investigate how it has been its development in the main brazilian cities

Chapter 1

Experimenting is fundamental to the training process of all scientists and engineers. While experiments have been traditionally done inside laboratories, the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies added two alter-natives accessible anytime, anywhere. These two alternatives are known as virtual and remote labs, and are sometimes indistinguishably referred as online labs. Sim-ilarly to other instructional technologies, virtual and remote labs require some ef-fort from teachers in integrating them into curricula, taking into consideration sev-eral factors that affect their adoption (i.e. cost) and their educational effectiveness (i.e. benefit). This chapter analyses these two dimensions and sustains the case where only through international cooperation it is possible to serve the large num-ber of teachers and students involved in engineering education. It presents an ex-ample in the area of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, based on a remote lab named Virtual Instruments System in Reality, and it then describes how a number of European and Latin-American institutions have been cooperating under the scope of an Erasmus+ project2, for spreading its use in Brazil and Argentina.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Espaços livres e espacialidades da esfera de vida pública: uma proposição conceitual para o estudo de sistemas de espaços livres urbanos no país

Este texto é o resultado da primeira etapa de trabalhos da fase número quatro do Projeto de pesquisa Quapá – Quadro do Paisagismo no Brasil, em desenvolvimento desde 1994 no Laboratório da Paisagem da FAUUSP, e que se voltará para o estudo teórico e metodológico dos sistemas de espaços livres na cidade brasileira, tendo como foco um conjunto das principais cidades de médio e grande porte do país. São apresentados conceitos que nortearão o novo processo de pesquisa, destacando-se os de espaço livre, sistema de espaços livres e áreas verdes

International cooperation for remote laboratory use

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