DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATIC PLOTTER FOR GENERATING EXERCISES FOR STATICS COURSE IN ENGINEERING
Por:
Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis, Barbosa Perez, Jaime Leonardo, Arenas Berrio, Julian
Publicada:
1 ene 2016
Resumen:
In the virtual platform for Statics course of Engineering School at
EAFIT University it was implemented an automatic plotter for generating
exercises to study truss type structures and beams in civil, mechanical
and production engineering. Through graphics changes, range of variables
and requested questions, the student is provided with different
exercises each time that they log in to the platform, achieving the
personalization in the learning and evaluation process. The plotters for
the structures are developed in JAVA language, and the questions
generated are converted into a compatible format with the management
learning system MOODLE. Since 2012, the engineering students' population
who have enrolled the Statics course is 1909 and all of them have solved
exercises generated with automatic plotters. From the design of an
automatic generator an unlimited questions bank is obtained to implement
in the virtual platform, it allows to get security when applying
evaluation tests due to the fact that each person solves a different
question. The present study shows the design and programming methodology
used to make plotters so it can be extended to others virtual
environments in basic sciences. Future works consists in making
automatic generators that allow to define difficulty levels to guide the
students in a progressive study in the course topics.
Filiaciones:
Restrepo Ochoa, Jorge Luis:
EAFIT Univ, Medellin, Colombia
Barbosa Perez, Jaime Leonardo:
EAFIT Univ, Medellin, Colombia
Arenas Berrio, Julian:
EAFIT Univ, Medellin, Colombia
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