University

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institut of Robotics
University of Maribor
Smetanova ulica 17, Maribor, Slovenia url
www.ro.feri.uni-mb.si e-mail martin.terbuc_at_uni-mb
.si
Use of the Internet in the Teaching
Process Martin Terbuc
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institut of Robotics
University of Maribor

• Overview
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
• Computer Science - FERI
• Use of the Internet in the Teaching Process
• Microsoft vs. GNU Linux
• GNU Linux

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institut of Robotics
University of Maribor

• Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• and Computer Science - FERI
• Organisation
• Study
• University Degree
• Proffesional Higher Education
• Master
• Ph.D.

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science Dean Prof. Dr. Ivan Rozman
Institute of Automation
Institute of Electronics
Institute of Power Engineering
Institute of Robotics
Institute of Informatics
Institute of Computer Science
Institute of Mathematics Physics
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering -
University Degree
Automation - Production Automation - Process
Automation Electronics - Industrial
Electronics - Computer Electronics Power
Engineering - Electrical Power Engineering -
Electric Controls - Electromagnetics
Mechatronics - Communications - Regulations -
Instrumentation - Actuation - Embedded
Systems Electrical Engineering with Economics -
Automation - Electronics - Power Engineering -
Telecommunications
Credit study ECTS Faculty of Mechanical
Engineering
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering -
Proffesional Higher Education
Automation - Production Automation -
Robotics Electronics - Industrial Electronics -
Computer Electronics
Power Engineering - Electrical Power
Engineering - Systems Technology - Structural
Technology
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Graduates in 2000
20 Masters theses 10 PhD Dissertations
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor

• Use of the Internet in the Teaching Process
• Introduction
• Including of Internet into the teaching process
• Creating WebPages
• WebPages of Institute of Robotics
• Conclusion

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor

• Introduction
• Classical methods to serve matter of study
• Chalk and blackboard
• Technical helps
• diaprojectors
• overhead projectors
• computers
• VCRs
• episciopes
• Internet
• available from everywhere with any browser
• multimedia, ...

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor

• Including of Internet into the teaching process
• Step by step
• research organisation
• projects, work
• hardware and software companies
• searching in the libraries
• individual use of e-mail and use of newsgroups
• virtual laboratories
• actual experiments over the Internet
• Help for students by study, not distance
  learning

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor

• Creating WebPages
• Attractive pages
• presentation of the matter
• Iterative process
• start with a idea
• improved every semester
• Form
• not complex navigation
• not to big documents (modems)
• common form

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor

• Creating WebPages
• Tools
• GENTLE WBT
• ...
• access time
• computing power
• classical WebPages HTML documents

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor

• WebPages of Institute of Robotics
• Informations about our institute
• Abstracts about lectures
• Instructions for laboratory work
• 1999/2000 unified presentation pages for
  subjects
• clear presentation
• simple achievement of knowledge
• www.ro.feri.uni-mb.si
• "Education" - list of subjects - "bookmarks"
• learning

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor

• Conclusion
• Students are prepared to use new media
• We must teach them how to use it
• Same approach during all years of study
• Costs of the Internet access
• classical material
• Permanently maintenance

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Microsoft vs. GNU Linux Microsoft GNU
Linux Why Linux? Linux installation Windows
connectivity Standard and scientific software
Real time Conclusion
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Microsoft Easy to use Look good We know
it Application - Expensive - Problems -
Standards (Microsoft standars ie. Internet
explorer) - Real time
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
GNU Linux - We don't know it - Problems
Stable Free Open (source code GPL) Easy to
use (GNOME, KDE, ...) Look good (GNOME, KDE,
...) Application (StarOffice, Latex, Lyx, Gimp,
Matlab, Delphi, ...) Real time UNIX like
POSIX
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Why Linux? Almost all scientific applications
run on Linux It is stable It is cheap It
runs on almost any hardware (ix86, ARM, Alpha,
Sparc, Mips, PowerPC, H8, MC68HC11, ...) It
is open source (You know what you get) ...
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Try Linux Different ways to Linux Install
GNU Linux on your workstation and try it Use
Linux on the Linux Login Cluster Different
Linux distributions Linux DOS/Win can coexist
happily on the same computer
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Linux installation Minimal Requirements x86
compatible computer (laptops !?) 32 MB memory
2 GB harddisk Network connection Recommended
Requirements Pentium III 400 MHz 128 MB
memory 10 GB harddisk
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Overview of Linux services multi tasking
multi user WEB server ftp server SMB
server mail sever
WEB webserver
LTS Linux terminal server
Try Linux
CUPS print server
INST installation server
LLC Linux login cluster
NFS file server
Print
Run applications on linux
Acces files
Install Linux
Linux Workstation
NT Workstation
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
NFS File system network file system access
from everywhere home directories secure
client disk cache individual access permissions
to directories
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Windows NT/2000 connectivity hoblink Access
Windows2000 terminal server from Linux
ntmount Transfer files from Linux to NT network
drive smbmount connect to and from MS 95, 98,
ME, NT vmware Emulate another PC under Linux
(i.e. running Windows)
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Standard Installation Software StarOffice-5.2
Word processing/ LaTeX2
Publishing lyx
Typesetting Netscape, Opera
Webbrowser Quanta HTML
Editor Acrobat Reader PDF
reader xpdf gcc C
compiler gcs-g77 Fortran
compiler
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Standard Installation Software Emacs
enhanced text editors Xemacs Nedit Gimp
paint program/image
manipulation xv ntmount NT
domain directory connection smbmount Hoblink
Windows Terminal Server
connectivity dosemu
execution of dos and MS Windows programs wine
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Scientific (Math) Software Maple
Analytic Math Mathematica Jacal Matlab
Numeric Math Simulink Octave
Scilab
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor
Real time
X Client
X Server
Aplications
Real time kernel
LINUX kernel
Computer (PC) Hardware
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Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science - FERI Institute of Robotics
University of Maribor

• Conclusion - MS Windows vs. GNU Linux
• Windows
• runs Microsoft Office and lots of games
• is perceived to be easy to install and
  configure
• is notoriously unstable
• performs poorly
• crashes are frequent
• Linux
• runs StarOffice and GNU programs
• scores of technical software and fewer games
• can be tricky to install and configure
• is rock solid
• performs impeccably
• crashes are extremely rare

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