WIP: Development of a Student-Centered Personalized Learning Framework to Advance Undergraduate Robotics Education

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05124v1
• Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 20:00:25 GMT
• Title: WIP: Development of a Student-Centered Personalized Learning Framework to Advance Undergraduate Robotics Education
• Authors: Ponkoj Chandra Shill, Rui Wu, Hossein Jamali, Bryan Hutchins, Sergiu Dascalu, Frederick C. Harris, David Feil-Seifer
• Abstract summary: The study of robotics at the college level represents a wide range of interests, experiences, and aims. This paper presents a work-in-progress on a learn-ing system that will provide robotics students with a personalized learning environment.
• Score: 3.4359491310368786
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents a work-in-progress on a learn-ing system that will provide robotics students with a personalized learning environment. This addresses both the scarcity of skilled robotics instructors, particularly in community colleges and the expensive demand for training equipment. The study of robotics at the college level represents a wide range of interests, experiences, and aims. This project works to provide students the flexibility to adapt their learning to their own goals and prior experience. We are developing a system to enable robotics instruction through a web-based interface that is compatible with less expensive hardware. Therefore, the free distribution of teaching materials will empower educators. This project has the potential to increase the number of robotics courses offered at both two- and four-year schools and universities. The course materials are being designed with small units and a hierarchical dependency tree in mind; students will be able to customize their course of study based on the robotics skills they have already mastered. We present an evaluation of a five module mini-course in robotics. Students indicated that they had a positive experience with the online content. They also scored the experience highly on relatedness, mastery, and autonomy perspectives, demonstrating strong motivation potential for this approach.

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