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The course of wireless sensor networks (WSN) cultivate students’ engineering consciousness and ability of system development through experiments. In the past, experiments were carried out in laboratories, where validation experiments were completed with limited number of sensor nodes and local development software. Under the limitation of experiment resources, it is difficult to meet the requirements of achieving the objectives of the course. Virtual simulation technology breaks space-time constraints, and students can complete the study of experimental instructions, the compilation and downloading of codes, and the collection of experimental results online. This paper designs a virtual simulation experiment teaching system of WSN by combining virtual simulation platform with existing teaching management platform and instant communication platform. The practice shows that the introduction of virtual simulation technology improves students’ learning interest, enriches experimental content and improves teaching quality, which is confirmed by q questionnaire survey.
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This research is partially supported by the project of virtual simulation experiment teaching in Anhui Polytechnic University (2020xnfz03), National Computer Education Research Association Project (CERACU2022R10), the industry collaborative innovation fund of Anhui Polytechnic University and Jiujiang district (No. 2021cyxtb4), the major project of teaching and research in Anhui province (2018jyxm0025), and provincial quality project of institution of higher education (2018zygc020; 2020jyxm0136; 2019jyxm05).
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Zhang, P., Fan, L., Dai, J., Cheng, B., Liu, T. (2023). Construction and Practice of Virtual Simulation Experiment Teaching System of Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Hong, W., Weng, Y. (eds) Computer Science and Education. ICCSE 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1812. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2446-2_47
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