Learning to Test With Robots Collaboratively in Our Homes: “Mum/Dad, When Can I Play With It?”

Conference: The Asian Conference on Education (ACE2022)
Title: Learning to Test With Robots Collaboratively in Our Homes: “Mum/Dad, When Can I Play With It?”
Stream: Adult, Lifelong & Distance Learning
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Keith Joiner, UNSW Canberra, Australia

Abstract:

Teaching postgraduate engineers to test and evaluate modern complex systems requires them to evaluate a system with a degree of autonomy, some internal programming variables and some external mission and environment variables. Prior to COVID-19, students did this in collaborative groups in attendance classes with a small line-following robot. The teams would apply test design methods to determine and rank significant factors (i.e., screening systematically), then test again to model and later validate across groups. The COVID-19 restrictions and geographic dispersion forced the teacher and students to do the same collaborative testing in homes, where families often got involved in developing racetracks, procedures and testing. At the same time, test runs would be ‘farmed out’ between different homes and results discussed extensively online. The shift in pedagogy brought valuable lessons in organisation, communication and considerable social and work contextualisation that will benefit reform in tertiary experimentation.



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