D&T Presenter - electronic interactive system for design and test education

The paper is targeted to current and advanced technologies in education, mainly to electronic interactive education in the design and test fields. Nowadays, many different types of electronic systems exist for e-learning, m-learning, general electronic presentation systems for helping lecturers to make education more attractive and helpful for students. The electronic presentation systems offer teachers to prepare and present their educational materials in simpler way and allow presenting more information, figures and interesting documents for students. Such presentation systems are mainly helpful for teachers but presentation does not have to be attractive for students because they are not actively involved into the education. Current technologies offer Tablet PCs with new input - touch-screen display and stylus for writing some remarks into slides by hand. Both, teachers and students can use this input. But students are not still involved directly into the teaching process, thus a teacher has less information about students' knowledge. In addition, presentation systems are generally implemented in such way the teacher has to prepare all materials before its presentation. The paper presents a new interactive electronic presentation system for design and test of digital circuits. The developed system, named D&T Presenter allows integration of new methods into the education using interactive works with students based on on-line anonymous test and answer sheets during lectures. The presentation system was evaluated at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava during the course Testability of digital systems and shows very good and useful feedbacks from students.