Robotics in education : latest results and developments

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
 TechColleges  (Thomas N. Jambor)....Pages 3-14
 Robotics Peer-to-Peer Teaching Summer School Project Involving University Students, Summer Interns and Middle School Students  (Sabrina Rubenzer, Georg Richter, Alexander Hofmann)....Pages 15-25
 Methods for Managing Student-Driven Robotics Research  (Cem Avsar, Lennart Kryza, Klaus Brieß)....Pages 26-37
 Robotics Education in Saint Petersburg Secondary School  (Sergey Filippov, Natalia Ten, Alexander Fradkov, Ilya Shirokolobov)....Pages 38-49
Front Matter ....Pages 51-51
 LEGO WeDo Curriculum for Lower Secondary School  (Michaela Veselovská, Karolína Mayerová)....Pages 53-64
 Pythagorean Approximations for LEGO: Merging Educational Robot Construction with Programming and Data Analysis  (Ronald I. Greenberg)....Pages 65-76
 Teaching Robotics Concepts to Elementary School Children  (Mor Friebroon Yesharim, Mordechai Ben-Ari)....Pages 77-87
 The Effect of the Programming Interfaces of Robots in Teaching Computer Languages  (B. Baransel Bağcı, Mustafa Kamaşak, Gökhan Ince)....Pages 88-99
 Creativity and Contextualization Activities in Educational Robotics to Improve Engineering and Computational Thinking  (Albert Valls, Jordi Albó-Canals, Xavier Canaleta)....Pages 100-112
 Educational Robotics for Communication, Collaboration and Digital Fluency  (Ivaylo Gueorguiev, Christina Todorova, Pavel Varbanov, Petar Sharkov, George Sharkov, Carina Girvan et al.)....Pages 113-125
 Using Robotics to Foster Creativity in Early Gifted Education  (Tomislav Jagust, Jasna Cvetkovic-Lay, Ana Sovic Krzic, Damir Sersic)....Pages 126-131
 The Evaluation of Robotics Activities for Facilitating STEM Learning  (Ronit Ben-Bassat Levy, Mordechai Ben-Ari)....Pages 132-137
Front Matter ....Pages 139-139
 MuseumsBot - An Interdisciplinary Scenario in Robotics Education  (Tanja Heuer, Ina Schiering, Reinhard Gerndt)....Pages 141-153
 Marine Robotics: An Effective Interdisciplinary Approach to Promote STEM Education  (Saeedeh Ziaeefard, Nina Mahmoudian)....Pages 154-165
 Designing Robotics Student Projects from Concept Inventories  (Reinhard Gerndt, Jens Lüssem)....Pages 166-179
 Teaching Research Methodologies with a Robot in a CS Lab Course  (Mathias Landhäußer, Sebastian Weigelt, Martin Blersch)....Pages 180-192
 Teaching Robotics for Computer Science Students  (Vesna Kirandziska, Nevena Ackovska)....Pages 193-198
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 TUC-Bot: A Microcontroller Based Robot for Education  (Sven Lange, Peter Weissig, Andreas Uhlig, Peter Protzel)....Pages 201-213
 Open Source Robotics Course at Engineering: Infrastructure and Methodology  (Francisco Martín)....Pages 214-225
 The Robobo Project: Bringing Educational Robotics Closer to Real-World Applications  (Francisco Bellas, Martin Naya, Gervasio Varela, Luis Llamas, Abraham Prieto, Juan Carlos Becerra et al.)....Pages 226-237
 Architectural Overview and Hedgehog in Use  (Clemens Koza, Martin Wolff, Daniel Frank, Wilfried Lepuschitz, Gottfried Koppensteiner)....Pages 238-249
 Open-Source Robotic Manipulator and Sensory Platform  (Luka Čehovin Zajc, Anže Rezelj, Danijel Skočaj)....Pages 250-256
 OTO – A DIY Platform for Mobile Social Robots in Education  (Thomas Vervisch, Natan Doms, Sander Descamps, Cesar Vandevelde, Francis wyffels, Steven Verstockt et al.)....Pages 257-262
 An Elementary Science Class with a Robot Teacher  (Alex Polishuk, Igor Verner)....Pages 263-273
 Design of Robot Teaching Assistants Through Multi-modal Human-Robot Interactions  (Paola Ferrarelli, María T. Lázaro, Luca Iocchi)....Pages 274-286
Front Matter ....Pages 287-287
 eduMorse: An Open-Source Framework for Mobile Robotics Education  (Daniele De Martini, Andrea Bonandin, Tullio Facchinetti)....Pages 289-300
 Teaching Robotics with Cloud Tools  (Igor Zubrycki, Grzegorz Granosik)....Pages 301-310
 Needs, Opportunities and Constraints on the Way to the Wide Introduction of Robotics to Teaching at Secondary Vocational Schools  (Mikulas Hajduk, Zbigniew Pilat, Adrian D. Olaru, Marek Vagaš)....Pages 311-316
 An Open Robotics Environment Motivates Students to Learn the Key Concepts of Artificial Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning  (Tapani Toivonen, Ilkka Jormanainen, Markku Tukiainen)....Pages 317-328
Back Matter ....Pages 329-330