Modern Educational Philosophy Applied to Adaptive Microprocessor Laboratory Learning
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Birckholtz, Marcus
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2014-07Advisor
Panholzer, Rudolph
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This Master’s Thesis deals with the creation of educational laboratories for learning about microprocessors and
programming. The lab exercises are based on the educational theories of David Kolb. Kolb created the Experiential
Learning Model (ELM) and the Learning Style Inventory (LSI). The ELM describes learning as a process based on a
learner’s experience. With the LSI it is possible to determine the learning style of every learner. By using this knowledge
from Kolb’s theories the lab exercises are designed adapted to the four learning types Kolb pointed out. The
microcomputer used for the laboratories is the BeagleBone Black, a small and powerful microcomputer from Texas
Instruments based on the 1GHz AM335x ARM® Cortex™-A8 microprocessor. The chosen programming language is
Python™, which is a high-level programming language. Through its abstractness and its expressivity Python is easy for
students to learn.
The realization of Kolb’s theories is explained later in this thesis. The main focus by explaining this realization is to describe
the connections between the outlined characterizations of every learning type and the methods used for the lab exercises.
Only little research has been done using Kolb’s educational theories for engineering classes so far. Therefore, with this
thesis new scientific territory will be entered. Before the lab exercises are described in detail, an explanation how adaptive
lab exercises can be set up is presented. The idea is to provide a manual for creating new lab exercises by using the
methods based on the ELM and the LSI. For describing the four lab exercises created for this thesis, a general description
of every lab exercise and descriptions of every project are given.
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