Design-Oriented Enhanced Robotics Curriculum

Yilmaz, Muhittin; Özçelik, Selahattin; Yilmazer, Nuri; Nekovei, Reza

doi:10.1109/te.2012.2220775

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“…This questionnaire was adapted from the Robotics Interest Scale (Yilmaz, Ozcelik, Yilmazer, & Nekovei, 2013) and the Robotics STEM career orientation scale (Nugent et al, 2016). There were eight items in total for measuring continuous interest in a career in the STEM fields.…”

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The Impact of an Integrated Robotics STEM Course with a Sailboat Topic on High School Students’ Perceptions of Integrative STEM, Interest, and Career Orientation

Chen

Chang

2018

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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The robotics curriculum is one of the most common and popular curricula for stimulating students' interest in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The purpose of this study was to develop a robotics curriculum that highly integrates STEM and uses open software and hardware, and to test its effects on high school students' learning outcomes, interest, and perceptions of STEM. The study involved 82 Grade 10 students; divided into two groups, the experimental group experienced an integrated robotics STEM course, whereas the comparison group participated in a curriculum with commercial robotics. After a semester, the quantitative and qualitative data showed that the experimental group reported significantly more positive perceptions of integrated STEM, with strengthened knowledge, interest, and career orientation towards related fields. The findings of this study provide suggestions for STEM curriculum development.

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“…According to Yilmaz et al (2013), when students actively engage with engineering practices, they develop a higher interest in engineering. Our study found that both robotics courses had a positive effect on students' STEM interest and career orientation.…”

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The Impact of an Integrated Robotics STEM Course with a Sailboat Topic on High School Students’ Perceptions of Integrative STEM, Interest, and Career Orientation

Chen

Chang

2018

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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“…Meanwhile, competitions are a commonly-used way in engineering education [17,18]. Especially for robotics education, such kinds of competitions are usually problem-based [19][20][21] and design-oriented [22][23][24] in a university setting. There is another type of extramural robot contest called ABU (Asia Broadcast Union) Asia-Pacific robot contest.…”

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IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics

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This paper presents a robot design competition called 'IDC Robocon' as an effective tool for engineering education. The International Design Contest (IDC) Robocon competition has several benefits in creating a meaningful design experience for undergraduate engineering students and includes an international flavour as participants of the competition hail from all around the world. The problem posed to the contestants is to design, build and test mobile robots that are capable of accomplishing a task. A primary goal of the competition is to provide undergraduates with a meaningful design experience with an emphasis on mechanical design, electronic circuits and programming. It is hoped that by placing the emphasis on the design, the course will encourage more undergraduates to go into the field of engineering design. This paper presents the latest 2015 IDC Robocon (the 26th edition) in detail and discusses course of events and results in terms of the educational experience. In this competition, a simulated space problem of cleaning the debris from orbit is proposed for the latest IDC Robocon competition. Teams, comprising of students from multiple countries work together to develop robotic systems to compete with each other in collecting the foam balls and delivering them to the rotating the holder.

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“…Moreover, they investigated the students' initial experiences, attitudes and opinions towards the integration of robotics as an educational tool. Yilmaz, Ozcelik, Yilmazer, Nekovei [31] verified the positive impact of the project-based robotics curriculum in stimulating student interest and how competition-driven environment can significantly improve student activities and creativity as well as [32] and [33]. As suggested by literature, the Robotics Laboratory adopted a constructivist approach and the project-based learning to collect data.…”

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An Educational Robotics Lab to Investigate Cognitive Strategies and to Foster Learning in an Arts and Humanities Course Degree

Gabriele

Marocco²,

Bertacchini

et al. 2017

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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Abstract-The research aimed at presenting learning results on an Educational Robotics Lab carried out with university students that attended an Arts and Humanities Course Degree. In particular, cognitive abilities put into action by learners in using a Robotics Serious Game have been investigated and data has been collected by administering a pre and a post-test on motivation and using Project Based Learning (PBL) methodology. Significant results have been acquired on: (1) students' motivation in relation to their performance; (2) team work strategy, analyzing the PBL; and (3) learning results. Findings showed that "intrinsic motivation" of the participating students, gathered with a specific questionnaire, was high since the beginning of the Lab experience, corroborating the hypothesis that these cognitive activities are able to stimulate curiosity, interest, enjoyment and to foster the learning also in humanities careers.

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Design-Oriented Enhanced Robotics Curriculum

Cited by 22 publications

References 19 publications

The Impact of an Integrated Robotics STEM Course with a Sailboat Topic on High School Students’ Perceptions of Integrative STEM, Interest, and Career Orientation

The Impact of an Integrated Robotics STEM Course with a Sailboat Topic on High School Students’ Perceptions of Integrative STEM, Interest, and Career Orientation

IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics

An Educational Robotics Lab to Investigate Cognitive Strategies and to Foster Learning in an Arts and Humanities Course Degree

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