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Transformation of Robotics Education in the Era of Covid-19: Challenges and Opportunities
Authors: Christopoulos Athanasios, Coppo Guido, Andolina Salvatore, Lo Priore Simone, Antonelli Dario, Salmas Dimitrios, Stylios Chrysostomos, Laakso Mikko-Jussi
Editors: Alain Bernard, Alexandre Dolgui, Hichem Haddou Benderbal, Dmitry Ivanov, David Lemoine, Fabio Sgarbossa
Conference name: IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control MIM
Publisher: ELSEVIER
Publication year: 2022
Journal: IFAC-PapersOnLine
Book title : 10th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control MIM 2022
Journal name in source: IFAC PAPERSONLINE
Journal acronym: IFAC PAPERSONLINE
Series title: IFAC-PapersOnLine
Volume: 55
First page : 2908
Last page: 2913
Number of pages: 6
ISSN: 2405-8971
eISSN: 2405-8963
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.10.173
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.10.173
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/177459686
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted many aspects of our social and professional life. To this end, Higher Education institutions reacted rather vastly to this unpreceded situation although many issues have been reported in the international literature since the emergence of the first global lockdown. As we are now transitioning back to the 'normality', universities and businesses consider the so-called 'blended' or 'hybrid' model as a means of facilitating the transition phase. In view of this decision, several studies can be identified wherein blended learning scenarios are proposed and described. The present work constitutes such an effort. Precisely, while adjusting the lens to the didactic of Robotics courses, we propose a blended learning model via which the laboratory activities are performed without the physical presence of the students in the physical context. The aforementioned objective is attained under the aid of the Virtual Reality technology coupled with the Digital Twin model. We hope that the ideas presented in this manuscript will motivate and inspire more researchers, instructional designers, and educators to consider the adoption of such alternative instructional techniques to mitigate the shortcomings that the remote education setting brings and further to improve the overall learning experience. Copyright (C) 2022 The Authors.
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