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Education during COVID-19 Lockdown and Social Distancing: Programmable Teaching Aid for Amplitude Modulation Theory as a Case Study

by Abdul Rasak Zubair, Sulaiman Seun Folorunsho
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 175 - Number 33
Year of Publication: 2020
Authors: Abdul Rasak Zubair, Sulaiman Seun Folorunsho
10.5120/ijca2020920844

Abdul Rasak Zubair, Sulaiman Seun Folorunsho . Education during COVID-19 Lockdown and Social Distancing: Programmable Teaching Aid for Amplitude Modulation Theory as a Case Study. International Journal of Computer Applications. 175, 33 ( Nov 2020), 11-29. DOI=10.5120/ijca2020920844

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author = { Abdul Rasak Zubair, Sulaiman Seun Folorunsho },
title = { Education during COVID-19 Lockdown and Social Distancing: Programmable Teaching Aid for Amplitude Modulation Theory as a Case Study },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { Nov 2020 },
volume = { 175 },
number = { 33 },
month = { Nov },
year = { 2020 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 11-29 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume175/number33/31664-2020920844/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2020920844 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Sulaiman Seun Folorunsho
%T Education during COVID-19 Lockdown and Social Distancing: Programmable Teaching Aid for Amplitude Modulation Theory as a Case Study
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
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%P 11-29
%D 2020
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

The novel Coronavirus is a strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) was previously referred to as the 2019-novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). It originated from Wuhan, a city in China. It spread very fast and became a pandemic. Measures adopted to halt the spread of the virus include lockdown, social distancing, self-isolation, and quarantine. During the lockdown, people are told to stay at home or work from home. Many countries closed their schools and educational institutions. Universities postponed or cancelled lectures, workshops, seminars, conferences, and sports activities. Institutions are transferring various courses and programs from face-to-face in physical class to online delivery mode in a virtual class. There is a need for special teaching aids to compensate for the lack of physical closeness between the lecturer and the students. The development of a user-friendly Programmable Teaching Aid for Amplitude Modulation Theory (ProgT-Aid_AM) is presented as a case study. With ProgT-Aid_AM, students can generate six illustrative Graphs and can perform experiments on their own at their save locations to enable them to appreciate the basic concepts of the subject. Computations of the modulation index, peak-to-peak value, and power-saving are demonstrated. Development of such programmable teaching aid in all fields of learning is recommended to stimulate students’ interest, to enable students’ centered teaching, to make teaching/learning at a distance effective, and to reduce the adverse effect of COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing on education.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

COVID-19 Lockdown Social distancing Education Teaching Aid Amplitude Modulation modulation index

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