Robotics in Education

Part I. Didactic and Methodologies for Teaching Robotics

1. Activity Plan Template: A Mediating Tool for Supporting Learning Design with Robotics
Nikoleta Yiannoutsou, Sofia Nikitopoulou, Chronis Kynigos, Ivaylo Gueorguiev, Julian Angel Fernandez

2. V-REP and LabVIEW in the Service of Education
Marek Gawryszewski, Piotr Kmiecik, Grzegorz Granosik

3. Applied Social Robotics—Building Interactive Robots with LEGO Mindstorms
Andreas Kipp, Sebastian Schneider

4. Offering Multiple Entry-Points into STEM for Young People
Wilfried Lepuschitz, Gottfried Koppensteiner, Munir Merdan

Part II. Educational Robotics Curricula

5. How to Teach with LEGO WeDo at Primary School
Karolína Mayerové, Michaela Veselovská

6. Using Modern Software and the ICE Approach When Teaching University Students Modelling in Robotics
Sven Rönnbäck

7. Developing Extended Real and Virtual Robotics Enhancement Classes with Years 10–13
Peter Samuels, Sheila Poppa

8. Project Oriented Approach in Educational Robotics: From Robotic Competition to Practical Appliance
Anton Yudin, Maxim Kolesnikov, Andrey Vlasov, Maria Salmina

9. ER4STEM Educational Robotics for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Lara Lammer, Wilfried Lepuschitz, Chronis Kynigos, Angele Giuliano, Carina Girvan

Part III. Design and Analysis of Learning Environments

10. The Educational Robotics Landscape Exploring Common Ground and Contact Points
Lara Lammer, Markus Vincze, Martin Kandlhofer, Gerald Steinbauer

11. A Workshop to Promote Arduino-Based Robots as Wide Spectrum Learning Support Tools
Francesca Agatolio, Michele Moro

12. Robotics in School Chemistry Laboratories
Igor M. Verner, Leonid B. Revzin

13. Breeding Robots to Learn How to Rule Complex Systems
Franco Rubinacci, Michela Ponticorvo, Onofrio Gigliotta, Orazio Miglino

14. A Thousand Robots for Each Student: Using Cloud Robot Simulations to Teach Robotics
Ricardo Tellez

Part IV. Technologies for Educational Robotics

15. Networking Extension Module for Yrobot—A Modular Educational Robotic Platform
Michal Hodoň, Juraj Miček, Michal Kochláň

16. Aeris—Robots Laboratory with Dynamic Environment
Michal Chovanec, Lukáš Čechovič, Lukáš Mandák

17.
UNC++Duino: A Kit for Learning to Program Robots in Python and C++ Starting from Blocks
Luciana Benotti, Marcos J. Gómez, Cecilia Martínez

18. Usability Evaluation of a Raspberry-Pi Telepresence Robot Controlled by Android Smartphones
Krit Janard, Worawan Marurngsith

19. On the Design and Implementation of a Virtual Machine for Arduino
Gonzalo Zabala, Ricardo Moran, Matías Teragni, Sebastián Blanco

20. Model-Based Design of a Competition Car
Richard Balogh, Marek Lászlo

Part V. Measuring the Impact of Robotics on Students’ Learning

21. Student-Robot Interactions in Museum Workshops: Learning Activities and Outcomes
Alex Polishuk, Igor Verner

22. Robot Moves as Tangible Feedback in a Mathematical Game at Primary School
Sonia Mandin, Marina Simone, Sophie Soury-Lavergne

23. Personalizing Educational Game Play with a Robot Partner
Mirjam Haas, Iris Smeekens, Eunice Njeri, Pim Haselager, Jan Buitelaar, Tino Lourens, Wouter Staal, Jeffrey Glennon, Emilia Barakova

24. Robot as Tutee
Lena Pareto

25. Concept Inventories for Quality Assurance of Study Programs in Robotics
Reinhard Gerndt, Jens Lüssem

Nyckelord: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)