After watching the videos for the "Understanding microcontrollers" MOOC, students regroup to form a robotics club.
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The course has given them ideas for creating their own models.
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The club members also take apart existing models to understand how they work.
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Sébastien Ali Kouame Bile, president of the robotics club, records short videos himself to explain to fellow students what they are learning on the course.
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Trainee Jean-Marie Omele at work.
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In the microcontroller course, students learn how LEDs are built for road and traffic applications, for example.
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"We hope to get the mandate to replace the city's traffic lights," explains technician Zakpa Attebi.
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In the practical training room for electronics there isn't a computer.
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Testing what they have learnt.
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Certain MOOCS, despite sometimes having technical names, can have highly practical implications. That’s the case for the course called “Understanding microcontrollers”, given by Pierre-Yves Rochat from EPFL and Jean-Daniel Nicoud. It is very popular among students from French-speaking Africa.
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