Measurement: Sensors (Dec 2021)
Online teaching at CTU in Prague aka university under COVID restrictions
Abstract
Covid-19 related restrictions bring new challenges to all aspects and phases of higher education. At universities, new remote formats are deployed or even developed both for lectures and laboratory exercises. This article addresses new challenges and describes the experience with lessons during the pandemic time at the Department of Measurement of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. It introduces the best practices exercised using the Home Lab, which helps in distance teaching of practical electronic classes. Home Lab includes two models with functional groups, a Laboratory Experimental Device and System of Measurement Instruments.The article also shows the possibilities of suitable remote exercises and variants of circuits that can be easily assembled and measured using Software Defined Instrument based on STM microcontrollers. During the pandemic, the home lab model was successfully practically verified during distance learning in three classes, with more than 150 students. The article also presents experience with the teaching of software-oriented courses. At first glance, their transformation can be viewed as straightforward. However, practical realization reveals few remarkable details.
