DocumentCode
3538149
Title
Future of robotics education: The design and creation of interactive notebooks for teaching robotics concepts
Author
Danahy, Ethan E. ; Goswamy, Amul ; Rogers, Chris B.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Eng., Center for Eng. Educ. Outreach, Tufts Univ., Medford, MA
fYear
2008
fDate
10-11 Nov. 2008
Firstpage
131
Lastpage
136
Abstract
Within robotics education, there can exist a barrier in presenting coherent activities due to the disjoint nature of curriculum concepts, software platforms, and hardware devices. Educators may not posses advanced skills in all these areas simultaneously, thus reducing their ability to effectively perform an adequate transfer of knowledge to students. This paper explores a new educational technology in the robotics education field: interactive notebooks designed and created with the goal of reducing the inherent difficulties integrated in the teaching of robotics concepts. This is achieved via a combination of connected robotics technologies that not only provide an engaging educational environment but also through student progress tracking and self-analysis/self-debugging are able to alleviate the teacherpsilas multidiscipline knowledge requirement.
Keywords
computer aided instruction; control engineering computing; control engineering education; interactive devices; microcomputer applications; notebook computers; teaching; curriculum concepts; educational technology; hardware devices; interactive notebooks; robotics education; software platforms; Capacitive sensors; Computer languages; Design engineering; Education; Educational programs; Educational robots; Educational technology; Hardware; Programming profession; Time factors;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, 2008. TePRA 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Woburn, MA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2791-8
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-2792-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/TEPRA.2008.4686687
Filename
4686687
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