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Project Oriented Problem Based Learning: A Wireless Sensor Network Perspective

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Every nation rely on latest engineering technologies to foster in today’s technological era. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is one of the latest emerging technologies being the center of interest of today’s researchers. All the researchers work hard to produce quick deliverables through Research and Development (RandD) and by applying different learning pedagogues. Currently, the learning pedagogues in Engineering RandD are Project Based Learning and Problem Based Learning (PBL). Based on these pedagogues, this paper propose and implements a hybrid pedagogy called Project Oriented PBL (PO-PBL) which is time effective and result oriented learning pedagogy. It has resulted in providing impetus to RandD in WSNs. Further the proposed pedagogy is divided into two paradigms namely PO-PBL Macro Model and PO-PBL Micro Model. We observed that PO-PBL Macro Model results in optimal number of deliverables in time restricted manner over large scale. Moreover, we have also implemented PO-PBL Micro Model, compared it with PO-PBL Macro Model and propose PO-PBL Micro Model as basis for designing self-learning algorithm for WSNs devices.

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  1. Institute of Communication Technologies, Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Umair Mujtaba Qureshi, Zuneera Aziz, Faisal Karim Shaikh, Nafeesa Bohra & Aftab Ahmed Memon

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This research was partially supported by Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan and National ICT RandD Fund, Ministry of Information Technology, Pakistan under National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative.

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Qureshi, U.M., Aziz, Z., Shaikh, F.K. et al. Project Oriented Problem Based Learning: A Wireless Sensor Network Perspective. Wireless Pers Commun 76, 463–477 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1718-y

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