Surviving the Unforeseen - Teaching IT and Engineering Students During COVID-19 Outbreak

In this Full Paper on Innovative Practise, we sum up our teaching experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on several courses taught at the Department of Computer Systems. The main technique to cope with COVID-19 restrictions in higher education is to use online teaching solutions. The firs...

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Main Authors: Ruberg, Priit, Ellervee, Peeter, Tammemae, Kalle, Reinsalu, Uljana, Rahni, Andres, Robal, Tarmo
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Buildings
COVID-19
Distance learning
Education
Embedded systems
examination
laboratories
online
Pandemics
Remote laboratories
teaching
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Summary:In this Full Paper on Innovative Practise, we sum up our teaching experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on several courses taught at the Department of Computer Systems. The main technique to cope with COVID-19 restrictions in higher education is to use online teaching solutions. The first step was to make the traditional lectures available online through recordings enabling students to attend lectures as needed. Yet, for several courses, a quick reconfiguration was required for laboratory exercises as COVID restrictions were established in the middle of the study semester. Thereby, an irreplaceable solution was to use remote laboratories. One of the main concerns was how to set up the online environment within days and weeks and not in months. In addition to remote laboratories, we propose an online teaching and custom assessment setup that to the best of our knowledge has not been used before. For example, instead of using Proctorio for online assessment, we propose a two-stage, licence-free, online examination setup. The proof of concept was carried out with more than 200 students.
ISSN:2377-634X
DOI:10.1109/FIE56618.2022.9962383