EmbedIT – An Open Robotic Kit for Education

Assaf, Dorit; Pfeifer, Rolf

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21975-7_4

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“…Some of the participating universities already had one or more NAO robots (a commercial humanoid platform by Aldebaran Robotics) that could be used for the first competition. For the second one, each university received an "EmbedIT" package, a kit developed by a PhD candidate at the AI Lab in Zurich [2] which perfectly demonstrates some of the essential implications of the "embodied" approach.…”

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Connecting Communities of Learners across Continents: The Shangh AI Lectures

Bonsignorio¹,

Labhart

Lueg

et al. 2014

2014 International Conference on Intelligent Environments

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Abstract-It is widely recognized that knowledge sharing and learning are most effective when occurring in an appropriate and supportive context. As a consequence when designing an educational process the context has to be carefully considered. Implementing "situated learning" is straightforward in traditional apprenticeship models that inspired the communities of practice model, and the centuriesold university model, but poses a formidable challenge when knowledge and associated practices are to be shared with large numbers of students as it is the case in most contemporary, demand-driven universities and even more in MOOCs.The traditional, and well tested, face-to-face teaching model that is in place does not scale even if videoconferencing is utilized to include students at remote locations. A few years ago, MOOCs were presented as a viable "solution", but while participant numbers remain impressive, experiences also suggest that the learning experience does not scale as easily. In this paper we discuss an alternative knowledge sharing and learning model, the ShanghAI Lectures (SHAIL) developed at the University of Zurich, Switzerland in response to the need of making top quality higher education available to a worldwide audience. SHAIL combines some of the strongest aspects of traditional face-to-face teaching, but also allows lecturing from and to a community which is globally distributed. Findings from delivering the ShanghAI Lectures annually over five consecutive years to up to twenty universities from across the globe (North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania) suggest that SHAIL is a promising way to address "global teaching", but there are also challenges to be addressed such as: finding a common base with respect to university requirements, student goals and expectations, teaching styles, and of course the actual technologies used.

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confidence: 99%

Connecting Communities of Learners across Continents: The Shangh AI Lectures

Bonsignorio¹,

Labhart

Lueg

et al. 2014

2014 International Conference on Intelligent Environments

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“…Además, tienen la ventaja de que es posible manipular y programar cada componente a muy bajo nivel. Algunos de los kits robóticos personalizables más populares son: Onubot (Cañada, 2011), capaz de reconocer y seguir líneas; EmbedIT (Assaf, 2011), que destaca por disponer de módulos hardware intercambiables que permiten configurar distintos tipos de robots como cuadrúpedos, bípedos, etc. Trikebot (Nourbakhsh, 2005), que permite además de seguir líneas seguir colores mediante una webcam; eSwarBot (Couceiro, 2011), o el propio Skybot (Skybot, 2008), que se ha escogido por parte de los autores.…”

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Recursos y herramientas didácticas para el aprendizaje de la robótica

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Jara

Méndez

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Education in the Knowledge Society

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Este artículo analiza diferentes experiencias docentes que tienen como finalidad el aprendizaje de la robótica en el mundo universitario. Estas experiencias se plasman en el desarrollo de varios cursos y asignaturas sobre robótica que se imparten en la Universidad de Alicante. Para el desarrollo de estos cursos, los autores han empleado varias plataformas educativas, algunas de implementación propia, otras de libre distribución y código abierto. El objetivo de estos cursos es enseñar el diseño e implementación de soluciones robóticas a diversos problemas que van desde el control, programación y manipulación de brazos robots de ámbito industrial hasta la construcción y/o programación de mini-robots con carácter educativo. Por un lado, se emplean herramientas didácticas de última generación como simuladores y laboratorios virtuales que flexibilizan el uso de brazos robots y por otro lado, se hace uso de competiciones y concursos para motivar al alumno haciendo que ponga en práctica las destrezas aprendidas, mediante la construcción y programación de mini-robots de bajo coste.

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“…In the digital age and with the "digital students," this reformulation is particularly relevant. New tools applied to different education cycles and in different languages have emerged: from the first study cycles [2]- [10], through the intermediate level [11] to university education [12]- [19].…”

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Virtual Lab Virtues in Distance Learning

Pereira

Soares

Costa

et al. 2021

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Portuguese schools have been closed twice. This fact causes teachers to quickly adapt the content of learning to the characteristics of distance learning. In some courses, this adaption is straightforward, although all activities on lab were limited to videos of experiments without any interaction by the students. These aspects could be very prejudicial to the learning process since the success of students in lab is proportional to the experimentation and training. To address this problem, a design science research-based project was launched to develop a prototype of a virtual lab that could allow the students the training that is as much as possible a replication of the real experiences' protocols. The preliminary results of the use of this virtual lab prototype were conducted by chemical teachers (as expert judgment). At the same time, we have implemented in the prototype checking points to give feedback to the student that are spread from the solid quantity calculation for the solution through the techniques of prevention of contamination of the solution in the process. Next step in this research will be the evaluation of vLab in large scale, addressing the evaluation of virtual lab versus real lab context, user friendly and early adoption of technology (students and teachers). Besides this, the prototype will still be developed to evolve for a virtual lab with haptics.

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EmbedIT – An Open Robotic Kit for Education

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Connecting Communities of Learners across Continents: The Shangh AI Lectures

Connecting Communities of Learners across Continents: The Shangh AI Lectures

Recursos y herramientas didácticas para el aprendizaje de la robótica

Virtual Lab Virtues in Distance Learning

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