Abstract:

Distance learning is one of the forms of education in which students, under the guidance of their tutor - teacher, acquire the necessary new knowledge and knowledge in the form of self-study, or use the Internet environment to communicate, acquire new knowledge, provide feedback, etc. This education system enables learners to learn at their own pace and at the time that suits them best. In the distance form of education, it is therefore possible to effectively use also remote real experiments for education, which can be controlled by means of remote access via the Internet and it is also possible to work with these experiments also during the teaching process on appropriate exercises within contact hours.

The national project funded by the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic Remote laboratories in distance form of education aims to create remote labs that can be used by students of specialized university departments both in the form of distance education and also within the contact hours for exercises. To create remote laboratories for pneumatic and hydraulic systems will be used hardware elements using the PLC together with a web interface for remote access and direct approach, methodology and educational materials suitable for inclusion in the educational process. A separate e-learning course was created for the training materials, which prepared students for practical exercises on pneumatic systems.

The article deals with the analysis of students' knowledge who used an electronic course to prepare themselves for practical measurements. The content of the course was focused on the knowledge needed to control electro-pneumatic systems: air properties, basics of Bool Algebra, electrical switching elements, pneumatic distributors and pneumatic elements. Two electronic didactic tests were used to measure knowledge. One was focused on the air properties and the second on the basics of Bool algebra. The test results were processed using descriptive statistics, analyzed and verbally described. The data obtained by the analysis of the tests shows that all the students who were preparing in the electronic course achieved the required success in the didactic tests (min. 51%). The average student success rate was even 79%. The electronic course, created by the authors of the article, prepared students for practical exercises with electropneumatic systems of the required quality. Students will be able to use the course for distance learning in the future, which increases the comfort of the learner.

Keywords:

e-learning, Moodle, electropneumatic systems.