TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual Training on Remote Piloting
T2 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2023
AU - Luk, Eric Tsun Hin
AU - Au, James Yee Fu
AU - Poon, Sunny Siu Ki
AU - Tsai, Chin Chung
AU - Jong, Morris Siu Yung
AU - Tam, Vincent Wai Leuk
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In recent years, drones have been regarded as an emerging technology-supported learning tool in K-12 and higher education. Nonetheless, for beginning remote-pilot learners, learning how to fly a drone is challenging. Apart from addressing students' anxiety about drone crashes, pre-piloting learning facilitation should also lay emphasis on equipping them with necessitated operational knowledge and skills in respect of the local law governing drone-flying. This paper presents the design of an authentic, self-directed mobile drone simulator, namely "VARPLE"(Virtual Aerial Remote-Piloting Learning Environment), for empowering students to practice Visual Line of Sight (VLOS) flying which is the mandatory operational mode of drone-flying in Hong Kong as well as in many other cities and counties. Concluding remarks on further research into the instructional effectiveness and pedagogical affordance of VARPLE, as well as its future possible usages in the process of drone-Aimed learning (DAL) will be discussed at the end of this paper.
AB - In recent years, drones have been regarded as an emerging technology-supported learning tool in K-12 and higher education. Nonetheless, for beginning remote-pilot learners, learning how to fly a drone is challenging. Apart from addressing students' anxiety about drone crashes, pre-piloting learning facilitation should also lay emphasis on equipping them with necessitated operational knowledge and skills in respect of the local law governing drone-flying. This paper presents the design of an authentic, self-directed mobile drone simulator, namely "VARPLE"(Virtual Aerial Remote-Piloting Learning Environment), for empowering students to practice Visual Line of Sight (VLOS) flying which is the mandatory operational mode of drone-flying in Hong Kong as well as in many other cities and counties. Concluding remarks on further research into the instructional effectiveness and pedagogical affordance of VARPLE, as well as its future possible usages in the process of drone-Aimed learning (DAL) will be discussed at the end of this paper.
KW - VARPLE
KW - Visual Line of Sight (VLOS)
KW - drone
KW - drone-Aimed learning (DAL)
KW - flight simulator
KW - remote-piloting
KW - small unmanned aircraft
KW - virtual training
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U2 - 10.1109/TALE56641.2023.10398376
DO - 10.1109/TALE56641.2023.10398376
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85184994814
T3 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2023 - Conference Proceedings
BT - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2023 - Conference Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 28 November 2023 through 1 December 2023
ER -