Circuits Course Research Articles

Designing Interactive Learning Media Using Mobile Augmented Reality for Electrical Circuit Education

This research aims to develop interactive Augmented Reality (AR)-based learning media for electrical circuit courses. The method used is prototype development, with three stages: user needs analysis, prototype development, and pilot testing. In the first stage, the needs of users such as students and lecturers were identified through interviews and questionnaires, which showed 90.9% of students supported the use of AR to improve their understanding. The second stage involved designing 3D objects and their integration into the AR application using Blender and Unity. Testing was conducted through the black box method to assess the functionality of the application. The results showed that the application functioned well, especially in visualizing the concept of electrical circuits interactively. This application facilitates understanding through 3D simulations, videos, and practice questions, and can be accessed through mobile devices. In conclusion, this AR-based learning media is effective in supporting the teaching and learning process of electrical circuit courses.

Using a Partially Flipped Classroom and Gamification to Improve Student Performance in a First-Year Electronic Circuits Course

Using a Partially Flipped Classroom and Gamification to Improve Student Performance in a First-Year Electronic Circuits Course

Project-Based Module Development in the Electrical Circuit Course

Education is one of the efforts of awareness to realize cultural inheritance from past generations to new generations. Vocational education must prepare graduates who are easily absorbed by the industrial world and the business world, specifically for solving this problem, one solution is improving the learning model. The project-based learning model is able to form soft skills, gain knowledge to solve problems critically and creative thinking skills. The results of the research carried out were obtained, among other things, from each material validation statement, the experts stated that the module was valid and suitable for use. The results of media expert validation showed that the module was declared media valid. The response of lecturers in the electrical circuits course to the electrical circuits learning module gave a good response, namely the practicality level of the module was 78%, where the module was declared practical. A questionnaire distributed to students taking the Electrical Circuits course with 10 statements stated that the module received a score of 80%, where a score of 80% indicated that the module they used was practical for learning the Electrical Circuits course. The analysis carried out to see the results of the Paired T Test obtained a significant level of 0.000 < 0.05 which shows that there is a significant difference between the pretest and posttest results. It was concluded from this effectiveness test that there was a difference in the results before and after receiving treatment using Project-based Module Development in the Electrical Circuits Course.

Maturation of cortical input to dorsal raphe nucleus increases behavioral persistence in mice.

The ability to persist towards a desired objective is a fundamental aspect of behavioral control whose impairment is implicated in several behavioral disorders. One of the prominent features of behavioral persistence is that its maturation occurs relatively late in development. This is presumed to echo the developmental time course of a corresponding circuit within late-maturing parts of the brain, such as the prefrontal cortex, but the specific identity of the responsible circuits is unknown. Here, we used a genetic approach to describe the maturation of the projection from layer 5 neurons of the neocortex to the dorsal raphe nucleus in mice. Using optogenetic assisted circuit mapping, we show that this projection undergoes a dramatic increase in synaptic potency between postnatal weeks 3 and 8, corresponding to the transition from juvenile to adult. We then show that this period corresponds to an increase in the behavioral persistence that mice exhibit in a foraging task. Finally, we used a genetic targeting strategy that primarily affected neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), to selectively ablate this pathway in adulthood and show that mice revert to a behavioral phenotype similar to juveniles. These results suggest that frontal cortical to dorsal raphe input is a critical anatomical and functional substrate of the development and manifestation of behavioral persistence.

Exploration and Practice of Project-based Classroom Teaching Reform with the Support of Knowledge Graph: A Case Study of the “Logic Algebra and Digital Circuits” Course

In response to the prominent issues in teaching the Logic Algebra and Digital Circuits course for undergraduate computer science students, such as insufficient student motivation, inadequate support for instructional design and organization, and ineffective project-based teaching, this study explores and implements innovative reforms in project-based classroom teaching supported by a knowledge graph. The reform is carried out by adopting the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) concept to design the course objectives, integrating and optimizing course resources, constructing a comprehensive and rich knowledge graph centered around key concepts, and developing a problem system that covers these key concepts. It establishes an individualized learning path to provide tailored and personalized services for students, creates a holistic learning environment that promotes intrinsic motivation with external support, and implements a 6-3-3 teaching organization strategy based on BOPPPS (Bridge-In, Outcomes, Pre-Assessment, Participatory Learning, Post-Assessment, and Summary). This approach stimulates a student-centered, eco-friendly teaching model through various methods. Through four rounds of teaching reform practice in the Logic Algebra and Digital Circuits course, significant improvements have been observed in student learning enthusiasm and engineering application abilities, and the outcomes have received broad recognition.

The Exploration of the “Four-Fold Nature and One Price” Intelligent Learning Environment for Digital Circuit Courses

AI-based educational models are gradually receiving widespread attention and application with the rapid development of information technology. In the course of digital circuits, by combining modern technology with educational theories, constructing an intelligent learning environment can provide students with more efficient and personalized learning experiences. This article explores the significance and challenges of building an intelligent learning environment in the digital circuits course. It combines the characteristics of intelligent education that differentiate it from traditional education and constructs methods and strategies for creating a “four attributes, one value” intelligent learning environment from the perspectives of diversity, adaptability, autonomy, contribution, and optimized instructional assessment.

The Assessment Method of Basic Circuit Course

The Assessment Method of Basic Circuit Course

A Practical Study on Developing Blended Teaching in Principles of Electric Circuits Course Based on Applied Talent Cultivation Mode

With the progress of society and the development of science and technology, the cultivation of applied talents in higher education has become more and more important. To better cultivate application-oriented talents, it is necessary to combine traditional face-to-face teaching and modern technical means to carry out blended teaching as a new teaching mode. In the electronic information class majors, the Principles of Circuits course plays an important role in students' ability to master circuit design and analysis. In this regard, this paper will discuss the strategy of blended teaching in the Principles of Circuits course based on the application-oriented talent cultivation mode, which provides certain references and references for the teaching reform of higher education.

Designing and Developing Android-based E-Book as a Guide for Students in Making Smart-Key: A Learning Media for Electronic Circuits Course

Learning media can be incredibly valuable in the study of electronic circuits, as it is an abstract concept that demands meticulous attention to detail. This study aims to determine the feasibility value and student response to the android-based smart key e-book as a learning media. This study is a research and development which followed ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) model and involved physics education students as research subjects. The e-book was validated in two stages, the first was an expert judgment involving 3 media experts, and the second was a feasibility test on students. The results of this study indicate that the e-book is declared very feasible, because all three experts gave a score above 80, and based on the results of the product feasibility trial, students presented an average score of 85. This study provides findings in the form of an Android-based e-book as a guide for making smart keys that are proven suitable for use in learning electronic circuits. Furthermore, this article discusses in detail the development and benefits of the product, along with the limitations of the research to be taken into consideration for further research

Development of an Assessment Model for Electric Circuit Courses Based on "Free Campus Learning (MBKM) According to Industry Needs" Using an Expert System

The aim of the research is to develop an MBKM-based assessment model for electrical circuit courses according to industry needs by using an expert system to provide recommendations in determining implementation policies on campus. The aspects assessed are the validity, practicality and effectiveness of the model. The instruments used are observation sheets, interview guides and questionnaires for students, lecturers and industry. And also use tests to measure student learning outcomes. The research population at the Faculty of Engineering, Padang State University, sample selection using a purposive sampling technique was 55 students and 5 lecturers, and industry instructors. Descriptive data analysis techniques to measure the validity, practicality and effectiveness of the model. And also the test uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using the SMART PLS application. The findings from the needs analysis of an expert system-based assessment model are that the results are very much needed. In line with the results of observations and interviews, it shows that there are still problems that occur in learning activities, assessment and MBKM, which requires the development of assessment models. Meanwhile, the results of expert validation produce data models, questions and websites (usability), information quality, information quality or interaction quality that are proven to be valid. Likewise, the practicality of the lecturers' and students' responses proved to be practical. For student learning outcomes, the average student learning outcomes are classified as good. These findings were novelty by using CAT technology, expert systems, MBKM, holistic assessment, and student assessment needs in industry. The suggestion for this research is to be able to add the latest technology to the MBKM assessment.

E-MODULE DEVELOPMENT IN ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS COURSES BASED ON PROJECT LEARNING

The lack of maximum learning motivation has a direct impact on student lecture out-comes. The provision of teaching modules needs to be adjusted to ICT developments in order to provide more meaningful lectures. This development research aims to produce e-modules based on project learning (PjBL) in electrical circuit courses that are valid, practi-cal and have a positive impact on student learning outcomes. This research is development research using the ADDIE model with five stages: analysis, design, development, imple-mentation, and evaluation. The subjects of this study consisted of 2 material, media, lan-guage experts, 38 semester 2 students, and 2 course lecturers. Data was collected through questionnaires and tests. The research instruments included validity and practicality ques-tionnaire sheets, as well as tests of electrical circuit lecture results. The results of the re-search show that the E-module developed has a validity level from media experts of 90.00% with a Very Valid classification, a validity level from language experts of 86.00% with a Very Valid classification, and a validity level from material experts of 92.00 % with Very Valid classification. This PjBL-based e-module also has a level of practicality in terms of the student aspect of 88.14%, including in the "Very Practical" category, a level of practicality in terms of the lecturer's aspect of 82.60%, including in the "Very Practical" category and is effective in improving results Electric circuit lecture.

Combining Theory with Practice in Circuits and Systems Education

In electronic information and related majors, “Circuit Analysis and Electronic Circuits” is a compulsory course, and its importance is self-evident. The teaching method that combines theory and practice has now become a more common method for circuit courses, but the inherent characteristics of circuit courses: a wide range of knowledge, complex basic theories and basic concepts, and many important and difficult points. Which results in the relatively simple setting of practical content corresponding to theoretical knowledge, Furthermore, students will find the course content boring and boring. Starting from this point, this article carries out innovative reforms to the teaching content in both the theoretical content and the practical content, so that the theory and the practical content are fully integrated. At the same time, abandoning the traditional teacher-centered classroom, the teacher only acts as a “guide”, giving students the identity of the “master” of the classroom, allowing students to explore and seek knowledge independently, and achieve “low input and high output”. In turn, a good sense of self-learning and exploration and innovation ability can be formed, which can train students into comprehensively developed learning, research and application talents.

Impact of anxiety and confidence in virtual reality‐mediated learning transferred to hands‐on tasks

AbstractBackgroundBenefited from advances in technology, virtual reality (VR) has been widely applied to learning content in operational training as well as hands‐on courses. However, most current studies tend to evaluate learning effectiveness in this application, and few were focused on how learners can be benefited from transferring the knowledge learned to real‐world field performance. Moreover, in application‐oriented hands‐on courses such as embedded electronic circuits, to our best knowledge, none were presented in interactive learning materials with the combination of VR and neither were the understanding of the changes in cognition, learning anxiety, and learning confidence during the learning process.Method and ObjectiveWe combine VR technology with hands‐on tasks to design a VR‐based embedded electronic circuit learning system. We conduct a quasi‐experiment to investigate differences in knowledge, comprehension, and application levels in different learning environments, and to assess learning performance, learning anxiety, and learning confidence levels when applying the knowledge learned to real‐world hands‐on tasks.ResultsGroups that receive VR‐mediated training exhibit superior knowledge, comprehension, and application levels. In addition, learners with higher levels of knowledge and application exhibit lower learning anxiety and higher learning confidence during practical application tasks.ConclusionsWe investigate the learning outcomes of learners on practical hands‐on tasks after VR‐mediated learning. To improve the learning experience and performance for learners in an embedded electronic circuit course, we discuss the learning performance in terms of the knowledge and concepts learned in the VR environment and transferred to the real world. The results show that learners achieve better cognitive levels in the learning process through the VR system described here. Better performance on hands‐on tasks was also obtained as well as low anxiety and high confidence levels.

Teaching Digital Circuit Class and Cultivating Students' Innovation Ability Based on Curriculum Thinking

Digital circuit is an important course in the major of electronic information. In the teaching of the digital circuit course, in addition to imparting basic knowledge and skills, it should also focus on the construction of ideology and politics to promote the overall development of students. This paper discusses the following aspects based on the construction of the digital circuit course Civics in colleges and universities: first, the digital circuit course should focus on the ideological and political education of students.
 Second, the teaching content of the digital circuit course should keep pace with the times, follow the pace of industry development, focus on practice and application, so that students can master the latest technology and tools, with the ability to solve practical problems and practical experience. Finally, the digital circuit course should focus on the cultivation of students' innovation ability, encourage students to actively participate in research projects and practical activities, and provide opportunities and platforms to help students give full play to their strengths and realize the unity of personal and social values.

Android-Based Courseware as an Educational Technology Innovation for Electrical Circuit Course: An Effectiveness Study

This study investigates the effectiveness of Android-Based Courseware (AC) in teaching electrical circuits to vocational students in higher education. The courseware was developed using Android Studio and was implemented in the Electrical Circuit Course (ECC) at the Industrial Electrical Engineering study program, Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia. The AC consists of four primary menus designed to facilitate learning implementation: learning materials, simulations, animations, and interactive quizzes for evaluations. The study utilized a pre-experimental design with a one-group pre-test-post-test design involving a group of students who used the AC in the learning process. The cluster random sampling technique was employed to select the research subjects. This study involved 68 students as research subjects. Data was collected through a written test, utilizing a multiple-choice test as the research instrument. The effectiveness of the AC was evaluated based on the differential analysis of pre-test and post-test scores using the paired-sample t-test. Furthermore, the effect size of the AC on the learning process was determined using Cohen’s d effect size analysis. The results showed a significant difference (alpha significance value is 0.000 and less than 0.05) between the post-test and pre-test scores, with the post-test scores (x̄ = 85.00) being higher than the pre-test scores (x̄ = 60.00). This indicates that the courseware effectively improves the learning process of the ECC. Additionally, the effect size analysis results show that the effect of using the courseware falls within the large category. These findings suggest that the AC can be an effective tool in the learning process of the ECC and can improve student learning outcomes. Specifically, the AC has a significant impact on enhancing students’ cognitive and practical abilities concerning electrical circuit concepts.

Discussion on Political Construction of Circuit Course

Under the background of engineering, in order to achieve the teaching goal of “Cultivate people with virtue”, the ideological and political construction of engineering courses pays more attention to strengthening students’ engineering ethics education, cultivating students’ spirit of striving for excellence as a great country craftsman, stimulating students’ feelings and mission of serving the country with science and technology, so that to help students get better knowledge and skills. The paper takes the course of circuit as an example, organically integrates the ideological and political elements of the curriculum into the learning process of the circuit curriculum so that to eliminate students’ fear of difficulties in curriculum learning, and increase their self-confidence by excavating the ideological and political elements in the circuit curriculum, carrying out reasonable curriculum design.

A Study of Practical Teaching Reform of High Frequency Electronic Circuits Course

A Study of Practical Teaching Reform of High Frequency Electronic Circuits Course

Territorial Nationalism, Confessional Islam and the Conundrum of State-Making in Early Postcolonial Pakistan

The interplay of the question regarding the nature of postcolonial citizenship and the limits of religious belief considerably moulded the processes of the structuring of the political community in the early years of Pakistan’s history. Such an interplay manifested in the form of a normative contest between two distinct conceptualisations of nationalism. One was based on the notion of fixity of political territoriality that was defined in terms of the cartographic identity of Pakistan, and the other was premised upon the phenomenon of confessional Islam which tended to interpret the political identity of the Pakistani state in terms of the religion of Islam as a faith. This article is an attempt at mapping as to how such a contest strongly underpinned the competing public discourse on the modes of structuring of the political community in early postcolonial Pakistan. By doing this, the article discusses how this kind of a public discourse factored deeply in shaping the circuitous course of the processes of state-making in the initial years of the country’s creation.

Development and Delivery of an Electric Circuits Course Featuring Competency Based Assessment for First Year Engineering

Most common-core first year engineering programs in Canada include an introduction to electric circuits and electromagnetic physics. The launch of the RE-ENGINEERED first year program at the University of Saskatchewan has provided an opportunity to try something different in this arena. The RE-ENGINEERED program includes a “spine” of electric circuit analysis and the related physics that runs through both semesters of the first year.
 The modular and highly integrated structure of the RE-ENGINEERED program has allowed for accelerated courses that take advantage of timely learning in other courses. In the fall term, students are introduced to direct-current, resistive circuit analysis in a six-week, fifteen-contact-hour module. In the winter term, they experience an accelerated physics course which covers the electricity, magnetism, capacitance, and inductance concepts often taught in tandem with basic circuit analysis. The students then finish the winter term with an intensive course on alternating-current circuit analysis.
 The fall term course fully adopts the competency based assessment system of the RE-ENGINEERED program, and uses in-house-developed quizzes and tutorials on the most basic concepts and calculations to scaffold students to solving more complex circuit analysis problems. The course forgoes a hands-on lab component and focuses on circuit simulation using an open-source simulation package. Concurrent math and MATLAB courses introduce required linear algebra concepts just in time for use in the circuit analysis problems.
 This paper describes the development and delivery of the fall term course, including how the learning outcomes were synthesized and then used as the basis for the development of all other aspects of the course to ensure constructive alignment. Instructor and student impressions of the first delivery of the course are presented along how lessons learned will be applied to modify the course for future offerings.

Teaching Reform of Digital Circuit Course in Application-oriented Universities

As an important part of higher education, application-oriented universities undertake the mission and responsibility of cultivating application-oriented talents for the country. Facing the continuous improvement of talents requirements in the current information society, it is necessary to constantly improve and update the curriculum standards. Based on the teaching practice, this paper discusses the case design and classroom teaching implementation methods according to the characteristics of digital circuit course and the existing problems in current teaching.