Educational Robotics in Smart Learning

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are the key courses for the students in the 21st century. There are several teaching approaches to improve the average scores in STEM education. Involvement of robots in the teaching-learning process plays an important role to transform and enhance the learning process. The technological advancement helps the students to translate the typical mathematics and science concept into real-word applications. In this chapter, some concepts of STEM have been implemented with the help of Bioloid educational robots. The educational robotics enhance the academic achievement of the students. The programming of the BioLoid robots is carried out using RoboPlus software, and the outcomes of the concrete mathematics concepts are shown physically.

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