VISIR20 Sustainable Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality

Title
VISIR20 Sustainable Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality
Acronym
VISIR20
Complete Call for Papers
Overview
This special session aims to share the educational benefits provided by the VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality) remote lab, over the last 20 years. There is recorded evidence of VISIR being used by more than 20.000 students in that period. The number of publications, developments, theses, and didactical implementations that have VISIR as the main building block evidence the contribution this remote lab has been giving to the engineering education community, in the reported period. Preparing the VISIR remote lab for a new period of 20 years ahead is now regarded by the community attached to it as a most necessary step.

VISIR - Virtual Instruments Systems in Reality is a remote laboratory for learning and teaching electrical and electronic circuits, initially developed at the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden, in 1999 and led by Ingvar Gustavsson. Since then, VISIR remote lab has been spread all over the world, during the last decade, and a considerable large community has been gathered around the use of this remote lab with very different perspectives and objectives.

After 20 years of continuous development and use of VISIR, considerable research work has been done in engineering teaching, exploring different academic levels, engineering courses, and pedagogical strategies, mainly to assess students’ performance and learning outcomes. The knowledge gathered with these shared experiences is most valuable and contributes to further innovative practices being implemented in a continuous learning process. On the other hand, being a resource for remote experimental practices, there is always opportunity to improve and adapt to new educational and learning demands, namely keeping up with emerging technologies. Having an open source-based interface, easily allows adaptation to different needs. Being spread all over the world, the creation of a VISIR Federation is defined with a vision of a centralized management system, serving users, independently of each VISIR lab physical location, supported by a research community, a repository of shared resources and materials, and collaborative platforms, among other tools.

The purpose of this Special Session is to provide a discussion space and promote synergies between VISIR users, to contribute for the next generation of VISIR developers, teachers or researchers, such that new and innovative best practices are devised, either related to students learning outcomes, or teachers didactical approaches, methodologies or instructional course designs, or even with new development ideas, which may expand VISIR’s capacity or applicability, both in new engineering educational contexts and incorporating emerging technologies.

Topics

We welcome submissions from all topics related to the VISIR remote lab, including but not limited to the following:

• Instructional design with VISIR
• Learning outcomes for remote experiments with VISIR
• Alternative developments and extensions for VISIR
• Teaching strategies with VISIR
• Research directions for VISIR
• VISIR Federation and collaborative work
• VISIR in the context of Emergency Remote Teaching
• Learning analytics with VISIR
• Digital competences

 Program Committee

• Co-Chair, Gustavo R. Alves, Electrical Engineering Department, CIETI/ISEP, Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.
• Co-Chair, Thomas Klinger, Faculty of Engineering and IT, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria, Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.
• Co-Chair, M. Arcelina Marques, Physics Department, CIETI/ISEP, Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.
• Co-Chair, Manuel Castro, DIEECTQAI, UNED – Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain, Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.

 Members

• Ahmed Naddami, Hassan 2nd University, Casablanca, MA
• Ana Pavani, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BR
• André Fidalgo, Polytechnic of Porto – School of Engineering, PT
• Andreas Pester, The British University in Egypt, Cairo, EG
• Carlos Arguedas-Matarrita, Universidad Estatal a Distancia, UNED, CR
• Carlos Felgueiras, Polytechnic of Porto – School of Engineering, PT
• Christian Kreiter, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, AT
• Clara Viegas, Polytechnic of Porto – School of Engineering, PT
• Claudius Terkowsky, TU Dortmund University, DE
• Delberis Lima, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BR
• Dominik May, University of Georgia – College of Engineering, GA, US
• Federico Lerro, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, AR
• Félix García-Loro, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, ES
• Fernando Soria, Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, AR
• Guilherme Temporão, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BR
• Javier García-Zubía, University of Deusto, ES
• Jordi Cuadros, IQS, Barcelona, ES
• Juarez Silva, Federal University of Santa Catarina, SC, BR
• Kristian Skytt, Blekinge Institute of Technology, SE
• Luis Rodríguez-Gil, LabsLand, Bilbao, ES
• Luis Schlichting, Federal Institute of Santa Catarina, SC, BR
• Maria Isabel Pozzo, CONICET, AR
• Mario Gómez, Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, AR
• Natércia Lima, Polytechnic of Porto – School of Engineering, PT
• Pablo Orduña, LabsLand, Bilbao, ES
• Razwan Najimaldeen, University of Duhok, IQ
• Ricardo Costa, Polytechnic of Porto – School of Engineering, PT
• Simone M. Biléssimo, Federal University of Santa Catarina, SC, BR
• Sonia Concari, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, AR
• Susana Marchisio, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, AR
• Thomas Fischer, University of Applied Sciences – FH Campus Wien, Vienna, AT
• Unai Hernández-Jayo, University of Deusto, ES

 Important Dates

• Deadline for complete paper submissions: June 30, 2021 using
  https://www.conftool.org/weefgedc2021/
• Notification of paper acceptance: September 10, 2021
• Submissions final camera-ready papers: September 20, 2021
• Online authors and early registration deadline September 20, 2021
• Conference: November 15-18, 2021