Open AccessRobotik@, a strategy to motivate students to choose engineering careers.
Author(s) -
Natividad Rios,
Daissy Payares,
Alisawer Meza L,
Juan Carlos Hernandez,
Silvia Baldiris
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ingeniería e innovación
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2346-0474
pISSN - 2346-0466
DOI - 10.21897/23460466.1533
Subject(s) - robotics , educational robotics , curriculum , process (computing) , artificial intelligence , robot , field (mathematics) , mathematics education , educational resources , training (meteorology) , resource (disambiguation) , computer science , engineering , pedagogy , sociology , psychology , mathematics , geography , computer network , pure mathematics , meteorology , operating system
Educational robotics is a demonstrated didactical strategy that motivates students to consider engineering careers and benefits both their professional development as well as the learning process. This paper shows an experience carried out in the city of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) that includes training teachers and facilitating them to take into consideration teaching educational robotics in the secondary school curriculum. The teachers’ training was based on the use of ROBOTREINO, an OER intended to be an educational resource for teachers that introduces them to the world of Educational Robotics. After the training, teachers were able to offer secondary education students a learning experience called ROBOTIK@ based on the use of mobile robots in the field of physics. The experience shows promising results.