Research on Online Teaching of ZigBee Programming during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cao, Z.; Meng, F.

ZigBee Programming is an elective course for computer science and technology major, mainly teaching the use of CC2530 and Zstack protocol stack. ZigBee is a kind of short-range, low complexity, low-power, low-cost and two-way wireless communication technology, which is mainly used for data transmission between various electronic devices with short distance, low power consumption and low transmission rate. The main purpose of this course is to cultivate students' basic hardware concept understanding and hands-on development ability. In order to do a good job of online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming at the problems existing in the online teaching of ZigBee programming course, we put forward some improvement measures for the teaching methods and evaluation methods, including new teaching content, teaching mode, usual performance evaluation and final examination in this paper, combined with the characteristics of the course and the actual online teaching situation. The questionnaire results show that the students are satisfied with this novel teaching method. Moreover, it also provides references for the online teaching of other computer hardware courses. © 2021 IEEE.