Design and Implementation of Educational Emulation Experiment Systems Based on Discrete Logic

Contribution: The scheme for virtual emulation experiments based on discrete logic which appropriately lowers students' cognitive burden and possesses manipulatable interactive logic in tune with real experiments is put forward. The relationship between students' experiential learning and the influence of cognitive burden is also discussed. Background: Many kinds of research prove that a great deal of time expense and complex experiment setup strategies are a must if one needs adequate exploration experience and results through real experiments. These outputs are also limited to lab resources, leading to students' less experience gaining. Moreover, conventional virtual emulation experiments are possible solutions but the lowering of cognitive burden is not adjustable. Students still lack practical experience due to the less challenging and more mechanic interaction. Intended Outcomes: A scheme for virtual emulation experiments based on discrete logic which appropriately lowers students' cognitive burden and possesses manipulatable interactive logic in tune with real experiments and an experiment system based on this scheme. Application Design: Students will deal with different experiment missions and prompts according to their cognitive level in virtual experiment scenarios instead of complex real ones. Students' operation strategies and parameter settings are analyzed and presented for more proper designs. Findings: The analysis of the experiment data is exciting: students who have accomplished virtual emulation experiments take up the absolute majority of successors when it comes to transfer questions, which means they have got more practical experience.