Abstract:

The rapid and dynamic transformation of education in the direction of its digitization has led to the creation of personalized electronic platforms according to the specifics of learning. The development of new methodologies and systems of laboratory exercises is now an invariable part of the preparation for the academic disciplines for the engineering majors in order to keep them up-to-date and in step with the constantly developing technologies.
At the University of Plovdiv, a system of laboratory exercises in the discipline "Electronics" has been developed for teaching students in engineering majors. They have been developed for three methods of hands-on training – face-to-face, remote (through simulations) and remote access through specialized learning models. This article describes the way of designing and developing the individual exercises included in the system. Special attention is paid to their implementation in the education of three groups of students who are trained through face-to-face, remote (through simulations) learning and through remote access learning. The three methodologies were developed for the laboratory exercises "Investigation of transmission characteristics of bipolar transistors", "Investigation of bipolar transistors as an amplifier" and "Investigation of analog-digital converters".
The results of the achievements of the students of the engineering majors in the discipline "Electronics" taught by means of the developed system are evaluated according to their learning experience, focusing not on the specific declarative and reproducing knowledge, but on the progress of the students and on the demonstrated skills at the level of implementation of a learning task or in specific work in part of a learning task.
The possibilities of the three teaching methods in terms of personalizing the learning of the engineering students were evaluated.

Keywords:

Education, digitization of education, face-to-face learning, remote access learning, engineering education.