Identifying the best practices in e-engineering to contribute to build up high-quality trainings within the European e-LIVES project

1. Manuel Castro
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department (DIEEC), Industrial
Engineering School (ETSII), Spanish
University for Distance Education
(UNED), Spain
mcastro@ieec.uned.es
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Identifying the best practices in e-
engineering to contribute to build up
high-quality trainings within the
European e-LIVES project

2. Introduction All the actions helping all the partners
to develop innovative and robust e-
learning solutions in STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics) on their own from A to Z
e-LIVES => e-Learning InnoVative
Engineering Solutions
Courtesy Guillaume Andrieu and Claire Dalmau – e-LIVES Project Coordinators at University of Limoges

3. Labs, from
Virtual to
Remote to
PocketLabs
Remote laboratories allowing students to
monitor online real practical works is a
feasible and low-cost solution
In Physics and Engineering, students have to acquire
practical skills by doing practical works. How to treat
this issue in an e-learning context?
EOLES best practice Tempus project
Courtesy Guillaume Andrieu and Claire Dalmau – e-LIVES Project Coordinators at University of Limoges

4. e-LIVES project
e-Learning InnoVative Engineering Solutions
Courtesy Guillaume Andrieu and Claire Dalmau – e-LIVES Project Coordinators at University of Limoges
From Tunisia
Virtual University Of Tunis (Local
coordinator)
 University of Kairouan
From Morocco
 Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakesh (Local coordinator)
 University Abdelmalek Essaädi of Tetouan
From Algeria
University of Mostaganem(Local
coordinator)
 University of Annaba
 University of Guelma
From Europe
 University of Limoges (Project coordinator - France)
 IPP Porto (Portugal)
 KU-Leuven (Belgium)
 Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (Spain)
 Labsland Company (Spain)
 IAOE as an associated partner
From Jordan
 Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Amman (Local coordinator)
 Tafila Technical University
New partner with respect to the EOLES project (6/15 => 40 %)

5. Description
of the
project
WP1 – Best practice identification in e-
engineering
WP2 – Development of reliable remote laboratory solutions
WP4 - Quality control and certification
WP5 – Dissemination / Networking / Sustainability
WP6 – Management
t0 t0+12 t0+24 t0+36
WP3 – Development of e-engineering trainings
t0+18t0+6 t0+30
October April October April October April October
2017 2018 2018 2019 2019 2020 2020
Courtesy Guillaume Andrieu and Claire Dalmau – e-LIVES Project Coordinators at University of Limoges

6. WP1 - Best practice
identification in e-
engineering
Leader UNED (Spain) /
co-Leader UVT (Tunisia)
WP1, entitled "Best practice identification in e-
engineering" and led by UNED, is an introductory
WP. The aim is to identify all the best practices
existing to build high-quality e-engineering
trainings. To reach this objective, different sources
are already identified: EU projects on similar topic
(including EOLES), related journals or conferences,
existing trainings...
The main output of this WP is a critical best
practice guide delivered at the end of the first
year, this guide being a support for WP 2, 3 ,4 and
5 with the selection of top good practices to be
promoted in the project. Conclusions of this best
practice analysis will also be presented in an
interactive manner during the different national
dissemination workshops (NDWs) organised the
last year of the project
Courtesy Guillaume Andrieu and Claire Dalmau – e-LIVES Project Coordinators at University of Limoges

7. N° Name Due date
1.1 Mapping of topics of interest 15/01/2018
The aim of this preliminary task is to identify all the topics of interest requiring a good practice
analysis in the field of e-engineering. Most of the items are already known and concerns all the
human, administrative and human obstacles to overcome before the creation of an e-
engineering training of high quality.
1.2 Identification of guide writers for each theme 15/02/2018
This activity follow the previous activity 1.1. The aim is to identify within the consortium the
persons in charge of doing the good practice analysis (and then write the corresponding part of
the report) for each topic of interest identified in 1.1.
1.3 Writing of an e-engineering good practice guide 15/10/2018
The aim of this task is to produce a good practice guide about e-engineering training following
the previous activities 1.1 and 1.2. The aim is to pick up all the relevant practices concerning
administrative obstacles, assessment, certification practices, quality control, remote laboratory
implementation from different kind of sources. Obviously, according to the own experience of all
the persons identified in activity 1.2, this good practice guide is expected to contain a critical
discussion on all the items identified in activity
WP1 - Best
practice
identification in
e-engineering
Tasks
Courtesy Guillaume Andrieu and Claire Dalmau – e-LIVES Project Coordinators at University of Limoges

8. N° Name Due date
1.4 Selection of top-good practices to be promoted in the project 15/10/2018
The aim of this activity is, in parallel, to the writing of the good practice guide (1.3) to identify
the tog good practices the consortium wants to promote in the e-LIVES project and try to
implement during the project (in WP2, 3 and 4).
1.5 Monthly online meeting about progress of WP activities 15/10/2018
Each month, an online meeting will be organized in presence of the WP coordinator in order to
discuss the progress of the WP activities.
1.6 Preparation of best practices analysis for national dissemination
workshops
15/10/2019
Once the good practice guide finalized 18 months after the beginning of the project, the main
outputs of this guide will be converted into teaching, learning and training material for the
national dissemination workshops held in each partner country involved in the project. The aim
is to produce various and rich materials in order to organize fruitful training sessions during the
workshop.
WP1 - Best
practice
identification in
e-engineering
Tasks
Courtesy Guillaume Andrieu and Claire Dalmau – e-LIVES Project Coordinators at University of Limoges

9. WP1 - Best practice
identification in e-
engineering
Sources
identification
• Former European Projects: Capacity Building, Tempus,
Strategic Partnership, Horizon 2020…
• International and National conferences related to the
subject: e-learning (EDUCON, TALE, ICL…), engineering
education (FIE, ASEE, TAEE…) and remote laboratories
(REV…) for instance
• International and National journals related to the subject: e-
learning (ToE, TLT…), engineering education (JEE, C&E, IEEE-
RITA…) and remote laboratories (IEEE Transactions on
Education) for instance
• Main research publications (Master Thesis, PhD
dissertations), associations related (GOLC, IAoE, TAEE, IEEE…)
and groups (IEEE Education Society, IEEE Computer Society,
IEEE Communications Society…)
• Main courses and educational resources related (Academic
courses, Industry courses, MOOCs, Open educational
resources and repositories, Private educational resources

10. WP1 - Best practice
identification in e-
engineering
Topics of interest
E-learning strategy applied to e-Engineering
 Learning based on tasks, Inquiry learning spaces, learning scenarios….
 Previous experiences carried out
Legal aspects to be taken into account
 Obtaining national accreditations
 Survey of existing laws about e-learning in the countries involved in the project
Financial Model
 Payment of fees
Organization of an e-learning training
 Main aspects that should be considered
 Daily organization of the training: structure of the year, the semesters, the weeks
 Advices on the drawing up of a syllabus for e-Engineering
 Ensuring a satisfying daily pedagogical follow-up of students
Designing practical laboratory classes
 Developing a remote practical work: previous and new experiences
Training of personnel
 Ensuring a sufficient teacher-training
 Training of others stakeholders (tutors, technicians, …)

11. WP1 - Best practice
identification in e-
engineering
Topics of interest
Quality Assessment of an e-learning training
 Measuring tools to develop the evaluation of competences and skills
 How to obtain data (questionnaires, …)
 Existing solutions (Moodle plugins, Google forms, …)
E-Learning Platforms
 General technical issues
 Survey of existing solutions (Moodle platform, …)
Handling different aspects related to Remote Laboratories to be used in e-Engineering
• Issues related to human activities:
 Organization, personnel and users
 Safety and Security Conduct Code
• Aspects related to Technology
 Technical facilities and instrumentation.
 System and Practices Protocols and Procedures.
 Laboratory Quality Assurance and Reliability
 Topics related to software
• Pedagogical and Educational support
 Practices Characterization and usability of laboratory resources
 Development of training activities
 Learning outcomes and assessment of pedagogical aspects
 Advantages and inconvenience in the learning process
• Lifecycle and obsolescence of lab equipment
• Learning platforms and federation
Remote Laboratory Development from a Technical Perspective
 Remote laboratory architecture
 Remote laboratory design and development overview
 Short best-practices list for the design and development of a Remote Laboratory
 Developing web-based remote laboratories using an open-source framework

12. Conclusions
e-Learning
InnoVative
Engineering
Solutions
• On-going project finishing his first
year of activity (from 3)
• Orientation to develop tools and
remote equipments to be
implemented in the North of
Africa and Jordan
• Best practices review on finishing
with literature review and
recommendations

13. Thank you!
Manuel Castro
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department (DIEEC), Industrial
Engineering School (ETSII), Spanish
University for Distance Education
(UNED), Spain
mcastro@ieec.uned.es
https://es.slideshare.net/mobile/mmmcastro/