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Title:
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E-LEARNING COURSE IN SMART TEXTILES |
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Author(s):
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Ion Razvan Radulescu, Luis Almeida, Benny Malengier, Zoran Stjepanovic,
Mirela Blaga and Petra Dufkova |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8704-17-7 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Pedro Isaias |
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Year:
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2020 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Vocational Education and Training, Basic Disciplines, Smart Textiles |
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Type:
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Short |
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First Page:
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157 |
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Last Page:
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161 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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E-learning offers multiple benefits for learners and is especially compatible with STEM fields. Smart textiles are a
modern trend of the textile domain and represents a multi-disciplinary field. Smart textiles are used to showcase an
end-application of STEM fields for VET students, within the Erasmus+ project Skills4Smartex. A course of 28
theoretical (STEM to Smart) modules and 28 practical modules (Smart to STEM) was achieved, by combining seven
chapters of textile technology with each of the four modules of basic STEM disciplines: Mathematics, Physics, Material
science Chemistry and Electrotechnics. A Moodle e-learning course in weekly format was created for each national
language of the project Czech, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian and English. The e-learning course includes an
embedded SWF presentation of each of the theoretical modules in national language, a Book resource and a Quiz activity
of each of the theoretical modules in English, as well as a Chat activity of communication between tutor and trainee.
Blended courses are envisaged for the ongoing Skills4Smartex project during autumn 2020. For the pandemic restrictions
period (March-May 2020), educational resources achieved in previous Erasmus+ projects were offered with Guest access
for students and 214 access sessions were registered. The proposed educational approach combines smart textiles
prototypes construction and related educational modules from theory to practice and from prototypes to theory, available
as Open Educational Resources in e-learning format. |
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