ONLINE ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN ELECTRONICS

We describe a new strategy (concept, methodology, architecture) and results of the advanced step of an EU supported TEMPUS (Trans European Mobility Program for University Studies) project EOLES (Electronic and Optic e-Learning for Embedded Systems). Our aims are combining e-technologies and e-pedagogies to create online undergraduate theoretical and practical courses in engineering education. The project involves 15 institutions from four European countries and three North African countries. This project addresses improvement and development of a distance learning system (E-Learning), especially at remote laboratories where new technology allows learners or researchers to create and conduct scientific experiments and deepen their experimental knowledge in a real laboratory via the web. Analyses and results of the improvement and development of this learning system seek to address needs according to three levels. First, it is necessary for this system of E-Learning to use and respect the educational and pedagogical standards followed in teaching. The second aspect is performance concerning the speed and precision of interaction with real laboratory equipment and instruments. Thirdly, this system must make the work and the tasks easier for the laboratory manager in matters of preparing and managing appointments and access to experiments and manipulation. The objective remaining for this new strategy and architecture is to create a laboratory cloud to be shared by the universities of the world, in order to complement them and to mitigate their lack of equipment.