Agency Architecture for Teacher Intervention in Robotics Classes

Author

Jormanainen, Ilkka ; Zhang, Yuejun ; Sutinen, Erkki ; Kinshuk

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Joensuu Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

5-7 July 2006

Firstpage

142

Lastpage

143

Abstract

Teachers working in robotics classes face a major problem: how to keep track on individual students´ or even small groups´ progress in a class of 30-40 students. An agency approach to this problem is based on having sensors to monitor students´ interaction, robots´ movements, and the construction and programming process of robots. The design can be implemented with the Lego Mindstorms set using the IPPE programming environment. The designed architecture works well for monitoring small groups, but needs further work to support teacher´s intervention to an individual student´s learning process

Keywords

control engineering education; robots; IPPE programming environment; Lego Mindstorms; agency architecture; individual student learning; robot construction; robot movement monitoring; robot programming; robotics classes; student interaction monitoring; teacher intervention; Cognitive robotics; Computer architecture; Computer science; Education; Educational robots; Humans; Monitoring; Programming profession; Robot programming; Robot sensing systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2006. Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kerkrade

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2632-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2006.1652389

Filename

1652389