Developing a PLCs Experimental Kit through Role-playing for Students in Vocational Education

Abstract

The traditional teaching methods of teachers are lectures and assignments to students' tasks in the classroom. Sometimes the students lack enthusiasm, resulting in poor academic performance. Providing teaching and learning that allows students to experience real -life situations is a prerequisite for future work. Furt hermore, in the industry, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) are used in automatic control systems. Therefore, studying in a PLC course, students should be exposed to real -world situations. Role -playing teaching is one way to help students experience real- life situations for future work and makes the learning process more interesting, fun, and motivating. Thus, this study proposes using role -playing for learning on PLC courses for vocational certificate students. Role -playing activities to help in learnin g can promote students to functional skills for using PLC for controlling the operation of the input/output devices. Moreover, the student can develop their knowledge, skills, and abilities according to the course competencies and use them for real work in the future.