Environments for Remote Teaching in Embedded Systems Courses

To cope with increasing numbers of students in embedded systems courses, providing means for distant learning from the student’s home is an appealing idea. This paper1 presents approaches for experimentation with real embedded hardware from the student’s home. In the labkit approach, students receive a media bag with hardware and software that can be used at their computer at home. In the remote workplace approach, the students connect to a target board via a server on the Internet. This paper gives an overview of these approaches and shows a case study on how the labkits approach has been deployed in our microcontroller programming course.