ABSTRACT
This contribution is about the time and didactic efficiency of electronic education in training of future specialists in the field of applied informatics. We created two groups of students within our research: experimental and control group. Both groups had to create a mutual goal during the educational process (1 semester) - to design and program a robotic arm controlled by Arduino. The experimental group worked in the TinkerCad environment which is an online simulation playground aimed directly for designing and programming projects based on the Arduino platform. The control group did the experiment the conservative way: the education process was done by giving the students physical equipment with the necessary electronic components. The results of this experiment show us the time efficiency in the favor of online education, while the didactic efficiency reached the same level in both groups.
ABSTRACT
In order to assure effectiveness, digital instruction prioritizes digital devices and systems over traditional technological and methodological solutions. In the current digital age and the way of life defined by digital culture, digital skills and competences become highly appreciated. Also, innovative methodological solutions, promoting the long term maintenance of attention and motivation, become key factors in remote learning or digitally scheduled education. Furthermore, the emergence of additional digital gaps, triggers newer digital paradigm shifts, gaining special importance during such exigencies, as a pandemic. An effective response or potential remedy, to this situation, is offered by digital pedagogy. Digital pedagogy faced substantial challenges during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, imposing demanding tasks on all participants, within the education sector. Our study introduces the results of a quantitative, multivariable, empirical inquiry, entailing a comparative analysis of data obtained from a survey of the pedagogue attitudes and digital tool systems for three selected countries.