Future of robotics education: The design and creation of interactive notebooks for teaching robotics concepts

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.