There is a consensus that technology is shaping the immediate future on Higher Education. Providing a reference textbook for every agent involved in tertiary education, compiling solutions, examples, and experiences on the use of these technologies, becomes a need to give support to lecturers and students, to administrative personnel and people in charge of university degrees.

The use of technology in higher education, with the irruption of AI, LLMs, the Metaverse or gamification techniques, has generated an increasing interest in academicians and researchers. Although there are a lot of resources (internet blog and sites, podcasts…) devoted to this topic, there’s still the need of having a reference text that compiles specific research approaches on the use and application of technology in education. In a dynamic world where news and advances are mixed and raised via social networks and other trans-media channels, the need of reference textbooks is a must so stakeholders can stop and realize on research topics and approaches, providing a deeper discussion and a larger extension.

This book can provide a common framework, compiling solutions and evidences across different sections that summarizes how technology can be applied to shape the learning experience but also the organization of the higher education institution, in the way to the university of the future, providing ideas to foster collaboration and enhance research.

This book responds to the central role of education in all spheres of human life and to the growing interest in its professionalization from different disciplines and areas of knowledge. Indeed, educational actions take place even in industry and business, to assure training the workforce. The never-ending technological developments and their implementation in education impose new methodological demands to monitor the fulfillment of the proposed goals. Assuming research as a mechanism for knowledge production, this book presents methodological orientations to scientifically address educational problems, which are constant and varied.

This comprehensive book, divided into seven sections, showcases groundbreaking research findings that blend new experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic with long-term research on online laboratories and virtual experimentation. Providing an adequate learning experience in the laboratory has long been a major challenge in science, engineering, and technology education. Recent years have further revealed the complexities of offering distance or remotely accessible educational settings, particularly for laboratory-based courses. In response, many academic institutions have innovated by transitioning their laboratory classes into online laboratories or providing laboratory kits for at-home use. This unprecedented situation has sparked numerous new developments, approaches, and activities, revolutionizing the field.

With contributions from leading researchers and practitioners across diverse disciplines, this book delves into current trends, addresses critical challenges, and uncovers future opportunities for laboratory-based education in the context of online learning.

Whether readers are educators seeking innovative teaching strategies, researchers exploring the latest advancements, or academic leaders looking to enhance remote learning experiences, this book provides valuable insights and practical solutions. It explores how online laboratories are transforming education and discovers the potential they hold for the future.

University classrooms (whether virtual or in-person) often cling persistently to a teaching approach defined by the linear, progressive sequence of explanation-application-verification. First, explain (theory); then apply through some practical activity; and finally, verify what has been learned with some form of evaluation. Altering this sequence initially involves experiencing a certain pedagogical discomfort: the desire to move away from teaching in the same way we were taught, understanding that learning methods have changed, and recognizing that cultural and digital trends have influenced the ways our students (and we ourselves) construct knowledge. These explorations often lead to a form of transformation (such as the flipped classroom), which allows for settling into a new pedagogical comfort zone.

This book, however, reflects a restless pursuit. Uriel Cukierman invites us to dive deeply into our teaching practices through his own journey, history, experiences, questions, and answers. Four decades during which he has intertwined teaching, management, and research, generating those meaningful horizons necessary in today’s world to critically examine teaching practices.

In 2006, the Signal Processing Department at Blekinge Institute of Technology and Axiom EduTECH in Sweden worked with National Instruments Corporation in Texas, USA, to set up the Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR) Project, which operates as a remote laboratory for electric and electronic circuits.

The VISIR remote laboratory is currently the only system that delivers practical experiments with electronics without the need to go to a traditional lab. This is of increasing importance given the expansion of online education. There is a mass of scientific literature that collects results on the use of VISIR remote laboratory, however, there are few reference works that provide an in-depth exploration of the laboratory's performance and potential.

VISIR Handbook acts as a guide for users, demonstrating many of the real (remote) experiments that can be achieved and replicated with this laboratory. Most importantly, this book demonstrates how VISIR can be used as a learning tool for students. The approach of the book is designed on two levels, with an administrator/researcher approach and a teacher/student approach

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