Marcondes Moreira de Araújo
ABSTRACT
This article provides an overview of the current status of remote laboratories in selected engineering schools in Brazil participating in the VISIR+ project, highlighting the importance of their popularization and expansion to strengthen the country´s effort to better educate engineers in the context of challenges and opportunities of the digital revolution for the innovation economy of the 21st century. It links this reality with the societal impacts of the digital technological revolution accelerated by Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Robotics, Machine Learning and Ubiquitous Internet. It also presents selected updated key indicators of engineering education in Brazil calling for effective policies to modernize the curricula and practices of engineering courses and training of professional engineers to meet the skills required by these new technologies and market demands. It concludes that remote laboratories are an important tool to support the country´s efforts to succeed on a track to migrate its commodities-based economy into a more sophisticated knowledge based innovative economy.
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- Role of Remote Laboratories on STEM Education and the Digital Economy: An overview for Brazil in the 2020’s
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