Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methodology
2.1. Escape Room 1
2.1.1. Parity
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- 0101 0010 0 → 0x52 → R
2.1.2. Longitudinal Redundancy Check (LRC)
2.1.3. Modulation
2.2. Escape Room 2
2.2.1. Hamming
2.2.2. UART
2.2.3. Radio Propagation
3. Evaluation and Results
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Ross, R.; de Souza-Daw, A. Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering. Telecom 2021, 2, 155-166. https://doi.org/10.3390/telecom2020010
Ross R, de Souza-Daw A. Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering. Telecom. 2021; 2(2):155-166. https://doi.org/10.3390/telecom2020010
Chicago/Turabian StyleRoss, Robert, and Anthony de Souza-Daw. 2021. "Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering" Telecom 2, no. 2: 155-166. https://doi.org/10.3390/telecom2020010
APA StyleRoss, R., & de Souza-Daw, A. (2021). Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering. Telecom, 2(2), 155-166. https://doi.org/10.3390/telecom2020010