The e-LIVES project aimed to support universities in developing e-engineering trainings through several key objectives: 1) Supporting universities in moving through different course design stages, 2) Developing reliable remote laboratories, and 3) Developing e-engineering trainings. The project resulted in an e-engineering best practice reference guide, implementation of remote laboratories for testing op-amps and RLC circuits, and an e-engineering virtual conference to disseminate results.

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Solutions, e-LIVES
e-LIVES National Dissemination Workshop

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The e-LIVES project
e-Learning InnoVative Engineering Solutions
The ERASMUS+ e-LIVES project started on October, 2017 and will
last until October, 2020 (extended to October, 2021)
e-LIVES
e-Learning InnoVative
Engineering Solutions-
Erasmus+ Capacity Building
in Higher Education 2017 -
585938-EPP-12017-1-FR-
EPPKA2-CBHE-J

3. e-LIVES National Dissemination Workshop
e-LIVES objectives
• To support universities to move through the different course design
and development stages (building of a curriculum, getting the
national accreditation, training teachers, creating contents, etc.)
• To support universities to develop by themselves (from A to Z) a
reliable remote laboratory
• To support universities to develop e-engineering trainings
• Perform a quality assessment of the application of an efficient
pedagogical innovative solution

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Partners

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Countries

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Students in higher education
• According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics
• number of worldwide students enrolled in tertiary education
• 94.5 million in 1999
• almost 207 million in 2014
• This growth, albeit important and more accentuated in less
developed countries, hides major differences between rich and
poor regions
• Higher education enrolment in South and Eastern Mediterranean
Basin countries varies between 28% and 37% → in Europe is 70%

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Students in higher education
Ratio
between
the number
of students
in higher
education
and those
who qualify
for it
Algeria
Jordan
Tunisia
Morocco
Europe
0,0% 20,0% 40,0% 60,0% 80,0% 100,0%
1990 2015

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The problem
• Rapid growth in the number of students
• Developing countries lack the necessary economic resources needed to
tackle higher education massification
• Universities are forced to handle overcrowded classrooms
• Engineering education fields
• Technological innovation is key to growth and prosperity
• Development of higher education in advance engineering fields is a priority
• Engineering education  laboratories expensive to set up
• Need wide spaces
• Need expensive equipment and instrumentation

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e-Engineering
Promoting the development of e-Engineering training practices
“e-Engineering” “e-learning training in the field of hard sciences”
e-Engineering is a concept that results from the concatenation of :
• E-learning. Concepts such as learning strategies, learning platforms and
scenarios, organization, legal aspect and quality assessments are key factors
to be considered in the design of e-courses
• Remote laboratory. a set of hardware instrumentation and software
solutions that allows students to carry out online experiments through the
Internet
An efficient solution to cope with higher education access massification in
engineering education fields
Meets multiple students’ profiles (lifelong learning, low economic resources,
distant and/or isolated areas, avoiding some overcrowded classes, etc.)

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e-LIVES National Dissemination Workshop
Laboratories
Salmerón-Manzano, E., & Manzano-Agugliaro, F. (2018). The higher education sustainability through virtual
laboratories: The Spanish University as case of study. Sustainability, 10(11), 4040

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Components of a web-
based remote laboratory

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Key elements
Three key aspects of a remote laboratory: Pedagogical content,
software, hardware
Multidisciplinar teams required

13. WP1 - Best Practices
identification in e-engineering
Good practice definition:
• Implementation whose main objective has been achieved
• Some problems might have shown up in any of the stages
• Many laboratory good practices (LGP)
• Few remote and online laboratories develop LGP guides
• Purpose:
• To train the users to working with this type of laboratories the best way possible
• To avoid mala praxis: endanger people, malfunction of equipment, damage
facilities, wrong results in the measures retrieved from instrumentation or
computer security problems
• Authors of this LGP: experience acquired over years by teaching,
working and researching with remote and online laboratories
e-LIVES National Dissemination Workshop

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e-LIVES WPs – WP1
WP1 - Best practice identification in e-Engineering
• Mapping of topics of interest
• Identification of guide writers for each theme
• Writing of an e-engineering good practice guide
• Selection of top-good practices to be promoted in the project
• Monthly online meeting about progress of WP activities
• Preparation of best practices analysis results for national dissemination
workshops

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Example: e-learning, e-Engineering
strategies and practical work
Depending on the institution different
learning practices can be implemented
Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT)
Lecturing
Virtual and Remote Labs
Lecturing

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e-LIVES WPs – WP2
WP2 Development of reliable remote laboratory solutions
• Detailed definition of the High-Quality Reference Remote Practical Work
(HQRRPW)
• Identification of teaching and technical staff
• Inventory and purchase of equipment
• Choice, Development and installation of remote laboratory computer
management system
• Tutorials on the remote laboratory implementation
• Implementation of HQRRPW
• Trainee practical exercise: 1-day testing session of HQRRPW in real class
environment
• Monthly online meeting about progress of WP activities
• Preparation material for national dissemination workshops

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e-LIVES WPs – WP3
WP3 Development of e-engineering trainings
• Identification of trainers and a pool of trainees
• Writing of a summary or data sheets by trainers for each issue about
creating an e-Engineering training in good conditions
• Trainee Practical Exercise : Installation and personnalization of LMS
• Trainee Practical Exercise : Pedagogical scenarization of lectures
linked to the HQRRPW
• Testing session of lectures related to HQRRPW in real class
environment
• Monthly online meeting about progress of WP activities
• Preparation material for national dissemination workshops and
selection of trainers among trainees for each workshop

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e-LIVES WPs – WP4
WP4 Quality assessment of efficient pedagogical innovative
solutions
• Template of satisfaction questionnaire addressed to students
• Template of satisfaction questionnaire addressed to teaching staffs
• Satisfaction questionnaire for trainers and trainees of the project
• Working group for the review process of training materials
• Selection of independent experts for the mid-review of training
materials produced
• Exploitation of the results from training practical exercises
• Valorization of the e-engineering skills acquired during the national
dissemination workshops

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e-LIVES WPs – WP5
WP5 Dissemination / Networking / Sustainability
• Design and update of the project public website
• Creation of project pages in the most relevant social networks
• Creation of a Special Interest Group within IAoE
• Bi-annual publication of an e-newsletter
• Development of a communication plan and promotion materials
• Organization of national dissemination workshops
• Final dissemination conference

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e-LIVES WPs – WP5
WP6 Project management
• Establishment of project steering committee
• Drafting and signing consortium agreement
• Drafting and agreeing upon management procedures
• Development of project management tools
• Project’s administrative and financial follow-up
• Organisation and minutes drafting of Steering Committee meetings
• Preparation and minutes drafting of Annual General Assemblies
• External audit

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e-LIVES objectives
• To support universities to move through the different course
design and development stages (building of a curriculum,
getting the national accreditation, training teachers, creating
contents, etc.)
• To support universities to develop by themselves (from A to Z)
a reliable remote laboratory
• To support universities to develop e-Engineering trainings
• Perform a quality assessment of the application of an efficient
pedagogical innovative solution

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e-LIVES results
e-Engineering virtual conference (June 22 - 23, 2021)

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e-Engineering

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E-Engineering Good Practice
Guide
• E-learning strategy applied to e-Engineering
• Legal aspects
• Financial model
• Organization of an e-learning training
• Designing practical laboratory classes
• Training of personnel
• Quality assessment of an e-learning training
• E-learning platforms
• Handling different aspects related to Remote Laboratories to be
used in e-Engineering
• Remote laboratory development from a technical perspective

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e-LIVES results
e-Engineering Best Practice Reference Guide

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e-LIVES results
Remote laboratories: Design, implementation and integration

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e-LIVES practical results
Remote laboratory OP Amp (test and work)

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e-LIVES practical results
Remote laboratory OP Amp (test and work)

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e-LIVES practical results
Remote laboratory RLC use (test and work)

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e-LIVES practical results
Remote laboratory RLC use (test and work)

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e-LIVES
e-Learning InnoVative
Engineering Solutions
The e-LIVES project