The Effectiveness of Integrating Educational Robotic Activities into Higher Education Computer Science Curricula: A Case Study in a Developing Country

Gyebi, Ernest; Hanheide, Marc; Cielniak, Grzegorz

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55553-9_6

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“…This also proves that educational robotics, such as the Minimalist Robot can provide an innovative way in teaching and learning of the STEM subjects. This is proven by the study of Gyebi, Hanheide and Cielniak, (2016) which applied Educational Robotics (ER) in classrooms and presented better results in terms of the students" motivation, engagement and their level of understanding towards a subject. Lerch (2018) even added that integrating Educational Robotics (ER) in classrooms would benefit students through (i) creative thinking (ii) more engagement towards concepts of a subject (iii) as a way of preparing them for the constant and rapid technological changes (iv) developing programming skills among students (vi) creating perseverance (vii) creating teamwork and collaborative skills among students and lastly (viii) providing a fun learning experience among students.…”

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Promoting Students’ Interest, Attitude and Intrinsic Motivation Towards Learning STEM Through Minimalist Robot Education Programme

2019

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Intrinsic motivation is one of the main driving forces for students’ interest and attitude towards learning STEM subjects such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Unfortunately, students’ interestand attitude towards STEM subjects are on the decline. A continued decline, if unchecked, will affect the number of students’ enrolment into the STEM fields. This study was conducted to investigate the students’ interest, attitude and intrinsic motivation towards learning STEM subjects by appraising the pro educational modules that include assembling and dismantling the minimalist robots and by providing software training to the students. The results of hypothesis testing of P-value generated via Statistical Packages of Social Sciences (SPSS) v2.5 indicate the effectiveness of Minimalist Robot Education Programme. The students’ interest, attitude and intrinsic motivation show a significant difference towards the learning of STEM. The findings also show that all the alternative hypotheses: (1) students’ interest towards learning STEM is increased as a result of participating in the Minimalist Robotic Education Programme; (2); students’ attitude towards learning STEM increased as a result of participating in the Minimalist Robotic Education Programme and (3) students’ intrinsic motivation towards learning STEM increased as a result of participating in the Minimalist Robotic Education Programme set for this study.These favorable findings can be a platform for advocating the application of robotics in the Malaysian curricula.

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Promoting Students’ Interest, Attitude and Intrinsic Motivation Towards Learning STEM Through Minimalist Robot Education Programme

2019

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“…British scientists have developed a low-cost mobile robot platform Colias that will be of particular assistance in developing countries. The cost of this robot can be reduced by removing some hardware from it, which will not interfere with its use (Gyebi et al, 2015).…”

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Use of Artificial Intelligence in Teacher Training

Wu,

Burdina,

Gura

2024

International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies

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The purpose of the study is to consider the issue and identify problems with the introduction of artificial intelligence in education and, in particular, teacher training. The study is based on online questionnaires that were sent to teachers (375 people) of higher educational institutions and schools in Russia and China. The results of the study suggest that teacher training based on artificial intelligence can improve students' knowledge, but at this stage, the use of technology should be combined with the traditional learning approach. The research may be of interest to teachers, students, parents, school, and university administrations, as well as to a wide range of people interested in modern education trends. The results obtained with the help of this study can be considered when planning a strategy for introducing artificial intelligence into education, making decisions about its share in learning with due regard to a specific area of study.

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“…The success and impact of STEAM learning, skills and competencies may not easily be captured with existing assessment and evaluation tools [4]. Educational theorists believe that robotic activities have tremendous potential to improve classroom teaching [6,9]. However, studies in which robots are integrated into the curriculum in university practice as a pedagogical tool and examine its effect on twenty-first-century skills are limited.…”

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Discovering epitrochoid curves with STEAM-based learning methods

Körei,

Szilágyi

2024

AMI

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In this paper, we present a new teaching-learning technique for drawing and identifying several members of an important family of parametric curves based on educational robotics supported by dynamic geometry software. Epitrochoid curves are essential in teaching first-year computer science and engineering students mathematics. From a methodological point of view, these are usually attractive and aesthetic curves suitable to capture students' interest and give first-hand experiences and activities. To implement a new STEAM-based learning method in this field, we created a drawing LEGO robot to visualise the epitrochoid curves and improved a virtual Epitrochoid Tracker with the Desmos graphing calculator to check the parametric equations for the drawn curve. The paper focuses on the two pillars of the developed STEAM-based learning method and their pedagogical aspects.

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The Effectiveness of Integrating Educational Robotic Activities into Higher Education Computer Science Curricula: A Case Study in a Developing Country

Cited by 10 publications

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Promoting Students’ Interest, Attitude and Intrinsic Motivation Towards Learning STEM Through Minimalist Robot Education Programme

Promoting Students’ Interest, Attitude and Intrinsic Motivation Towards Learning STEM Through Minimalist Robot Education Programme

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Teacher Training

Discovering epitrochoid curves with STEAM-based learning methods

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