Use of Mobile Devices as an Interactive Learning Method in a Mechatronics Engineering Course: A Case Study
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Abstract
This paper is concerned with the implementation of an innovative interactive learning tool in teaching a Mechatronics Engineering course at the University of Waterloo. The course deals with digital logic, PLC programing, and assembly language. The interactive tool, developed at Top Hat Monocle Inc., was used in teaching the assembly language part of the course. The interactive tool has two components: students’ electronic devices and a front-end website in which the instructor has control to launch demonstrations and quizzes and receive students’ responses. Students are connected through WiFi connection or their smart phones. In this study, students’ performance was evaluated using the final exam scores and the surveys. The exam results showed about 23% improvement. According to the results of the survey administered at the end of the term, students who participated on the interactive simulation and quizzes agreed that it helped the concepts “stick in their memory better”.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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