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Peer-Teaching Support System for Online Exercises: Prototype and its Evolution

Authors:
Shiryu Sekiguchi
Tsuyoshi Nakajima

Keywords: online education; peer-teaching; IoT exercise.

Abstract:
Online exercises that deal with hardware, such as Internet of Things prototyping, have few convenient tools for students to share visual information on physical artifacts for peer-teaching. We proposed a peer-teaching support system “ShareHandy,” which allows students to share videos of artifacts under development and point out areas of interest in real time using smartphones and PCs. We developed a prototype and applied it to an online Internet of Things prototyping exercise and verified its effectiveness for peer-teaching. As a result, the students could understand each other's problems and give appropriate advice efficiently and accurately. This proves that the system is effective for peer-teaching and improving the overall efficiency of the exercise. However, we found that it has little effect on promoting peer-teaching itself. Based on the findings, we defined the requirements for improved system necessary to promote peer-teaching in the exercises. This paper describes and evaluates the first protype of ShareHandy and provides the requirements for its evolution.

Pages: 13 to 19

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2022. Used with permission.

Publication date: December 31, 2022

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ISSN: 1942-2652