In recent years, robots have been surfing on a trendy wave as standard devices for teaching programming. The tangibility of robotics platforms allows for collaborative and interactive learning. Moreover, with these robot platforms, we also observe …
Context: Online learning presents several advantages: decreasing cost, allowing more flexibility and access to far away training resources. However, studies have found that it also limits communications between peers and teachers, limits physical interactions and that it requires a big commitment on the student’s part to plan and stay assiduous in their learning.
Goals & Milestones In this project, we aim to design and test a novel way to engage students in collaborative online learning by using haptic enabled tangible robots.