Adaptive remote experimentation for engineering students

Due to the dynamic nature of changes in various ICT technologies nowadays, the gaps between industry, research, and academia need to be bridged in order to adequately support STEM students towards their future career paths. With the COVID-19 pandemic, and restrictions on access to university premises, an agile transition of both teaching and experimentation was essential, and adjustments in the curriculum were needed more than ever. Therefore, in this paper we present an adaptive and on-demand education framework for engineering students, thereby enabling remote experimentation and adjustments of exercise content to enhance students' learning experience. We present the two types of practical experimentation environments, i.e., cloud and real-life net-working testbed, for performing remote laboratory exercises, as well as the assessment of students' experience that is used as an input for the dynamic adjustments of the exercise content. Our results show that students consider they significantly improved the baseline skills our courses tend to build and strengthen towards preparing students for their future jobs.