Presentation of the development of an embedded Moodle server to host a MOOC in a LAN inside a Raspberry Pi to bring STEM activities about Robotics and Arduino to young audience, during the IEEE LWMOOCS 2019 conference in Milwaukee, WI, October 23rd to 25th, 2019

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Portable Blended MOOC Laboratory
Pedro Plaza, Elio Sancristobal, German Carro, Manuel Blazquez, Antonio Menacho, Félix García-Loro , Clara Perez, Javier Muñoz, Edmundo
Tovar, Jim Sluss, Russ Meier and Manuel Castro
Manuel Castro

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Introduction
The educational environment today has a multitude of media
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▸Electronic whiteboards
▸Remote laboratories
▸Learning Management Systems
Learning Technologies
Facilitate student learning and provide instructors with detailed
learning analytics ▸Educational robotics
▸Virtual Reality
▸Online education
▸Mobile education

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State of the art
Learning systems oriented to ubiquitous education
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Why need a portable blended MOOC
laboratory?

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▸Blended learning as an educational trend:
- Online educational materials
- Traditional location-based classroom methods
▸Takes advantage of the possibilities provided by online interaction
▸It is possible to take advantage of:
- Students’ control over the time they spend in the development of tasks
- the place where he performs them
- the path he/she follows
- and even the rhythm of each student
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Portable blended MOOC laboratory
A bridge between traditional education and distance education

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Components of the portable blended
MOOC laboratory
A course framed in educational robotics using the Arduino
tool
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A group of 9 children between the ages of 7 and 13

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▸The course is divided into 10 parts to cover:
- Learning about the hardware part and the software part
- Simple tasks with an LED
- Use Arduino libraries
- Use more advanced electronic components
- Represent a fixed aspect Implement real-life applications
- Connect Arduinos and synchronize them
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Course content
A bridge between traditional education and distance education
Raspberry Pi running Moodle

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Equipment used by students

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Results from the experience (I)
Progress of the students

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Results from the experience (II)
Spent time by the students

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Results from the experience (III)
Spent time by the students

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Conclusions
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▸Instructors can know what tasks students can do and how long it takes each
student to complete them
▸Students receive more detailed information to meet the challenges they face
▸This system facilitates the analysis of the students' learning results to improve
the educational material
▸The instructor is able to provide support during the challenges
▸The instructor got students progresses during the learning process

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