Exploring the use of Quick Response Codes: accessing videos in the laboratory

Bringing the digital world and "digital natives" to hands-on engineering laboratory classes can be a challenge and an opportunity. Videos can be used, but is important that students know exactly what video to watch for each apparatus. That is why the possibility of accessing videos with QR codes is essential to build a bridge from concrete to digital content. The aim of this research is to evaluate the importance undergraduate engineering students attribute to instructional videos that explain the operating procedure of laboratory apparatus, and their reaction to the possibility of accessing them with quick response (QR) codes. Results show students attributed some importance to the videos and the QR codes in the laboratory are very helpful as means to quickly and easily access the videos.