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The DERIVE
project brings together these demands with the development and
evaluation of a new kind of multi-perspective learning environment.
The learning environment will be used for vocational training
in mechatronics, including first steps towards
tele-service for production systems. It will consist of a combination
of real and virtual, local and remote media.
A pedagogical concept which meets the requirements
of learning and teaching mechatronics will be developed.
In the mechatronics field the pedagogical and training concept
will focus on providing the students in vocational and engineering
schools with the experience of the complexity of real production
systems and to allow them to use resources which normally are
only available at specialised sites.
The tele-cooperation functionality in the learning environment
will allow companies to use the training facilities of schools
and/or other providers for training their employees.
The new environment will allow groups of staff at remote locations
to take part at training courses. Trainees will be able to work
in a collaborative way to solve problems and explore learning
situations. This new kind of interaction will allow the systematic
support of skilled workers and engineers by educators in vocational
schools.
A learning environment which supports the
achievement
of the pedagogical objectives will be developed.
The learning environment will support bridges between the real
and virtual world with integrated simulations. The system will
provide the function of freely replacing virtual parts by real
ones and vice versa. The envisioned learning environment of
the DERIVE project With a special
kind of electronic-electro-pneumatic coupling between the computer
and a mechatronic hardware kit, it will be possible to build
Hybrid-Hyper-Systems which can be considered as a mixture of
real and virtual parts. The system may be distributed, having
a set of real parts at one place and the virtual counterparts
at remote places. This coupling will be realised by Internet
links.
The suitability of the learning environment
to achieve the pedagogical objectives will be evaluated.
The effects of teaching and learning through the new technology
will be analysed in different settings, including classroom
only and various types of mixed classroom-workplace learning
scenarios.
The market for innovative training systems
for mechatronics will be initialised and extended.
Numerous companies provide training materials for mechatronics.
The project partner FESTO DIDATIC
is a world-wide trend-setter and market leader for training
equipment in automation technology. Festo offers a broad spectrum
of products related to training for mechatronics with a world-wide
market share of about 25 %. Through the development of the DERIVE
system the position of partner Festo
will be protected. However, the market potentials for innovate
products must be developed before it can be exploited. |
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