Multimedia Simulation for Electronics Laboratory Activity in India

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Published: Jan 1, 2007
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Chetana KAMLASKAR

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Laboratory courses help students to gain insight and understanding of the real world. Use of
combination of interactive simulations and hands on experience in the lab provides more
promising effect as simulation provides illustrations of phenomena that are not easily
visualized. Further interactive simulations allow students to do otherwise more complex and
hazardous experiments, offer full control to manipulate experimental variables and observed
circuit behaviors, which helps to foster a deeper understanding of the experiments. The
objective of this research project was to design and to create an interactive simulation for
electronics lab and evaluate its effectiveness from counselor’s outlook. For this, interactive
simulation was developed on ‘Wien bridge oscillator’ which is one of the lab activities of basic
electronics course offered at 4th semester of B.Tech Electronics Engineering. This paper
presents a study that investigates the effect of using computer simulation. The results from the
evaluation revealed that the simulation package was rated high in the areas of quality content,
quality language, user friendliness, presentation flow, motivation etc. Whereas feedback,
adaptation and auditory support along with visual material representation for visually disable
learner, were areas identified that required enrichment. The findings from the study
demonstrate that developed simulation package is a useful educational tool to improve overall
effectiveness and efficiency of teaching-learning process.

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KAMLASKAR, C. (2007). Multimedia Simulation for Electronics Laboratory Activity in India. Asian Journal of Distance Education, 5(3). Retrieved from http://asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/108
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