Conference Session

Bring Your Own Experiment: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University; Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina University; Hugh Jack, Western Carolina University; Andrew Ritenour, Western Carolina University; Hayrettin B. Karayaka, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

, CarlottaBerry [17] reported their approach to allow students to borrow a myDAQ unit from thedepartment while purchasing other parts and a tutorial booklet for about $20. The authorsconducted an online course in summer twice and learned the lesson from their first trial toachieve better scores in the second trial. Yet “of the 20 students who took the course online overthe two summers 7 of them passed with a C or better, 6 earned lower grades, and 7 withdrew.”The test scores might have been skewed since the low-performing students withdrew, while theywere the group who needed more help. Tom J. Zajdel and Michel M. Maharbiz [13] had takenthe circuit course online at a massive scale at edX in 2015. There were over 80,000 studentsenrolled across one year