INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN RENEWABLE ENERGIES
Radumihai Tirca, Luca Mihailescu, Eleonora Popescu, Cristina Humă, Sanda Voinea · eLearning and Software for Education · 2021
With the rise of online teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, experimental laboratories in all STEM fields have to be fundamentally reconsidered as experimental work is an indispensable part of a student's education. Creating the necessary materials for a truly useful alternative to in-person work requires looking outside the traditional methods of teaching. This paper is meant to serve as a general framework for the development of video materials. In order to make these accessible and engaging, and therefore effective, the production quality ought to be taken into account. The focus will be set on the development of a series of videos on the phenomenological study of electrolysis of water, with a particular interest in hydrogen and oxygen production. The first part of the series is designed to be accessible to a general audience, regardless of the degree of familiarity that they have with the subject, doubling as a science popularization material. The second and third parts are dedicated to students in the fields related to renewable energies, however they may be useful to any in STEM fields. The third part will include a remote access laboratory set-up by converting the original experiment. This will involve a redesign of the experimental set-up to fit the technological upgrades. This article provides a cost efficient workflow for adapting traditional on-site experiments to the online medium. Such materials do not have to remain a tool for e-learning, but rather, they can be used as supporting materials for future in person teaching as well.