Abstract
TechColleges, a project founded by the Federal State of Lower Saxony, aims at inspiring students at vocational schools to become a part of the first generation of academics. These students - being trained to teach at vocational schools - get support during their university courses with mathematical introductory courses and electrotechnical projects using small robots (e.g. Raspberry Pi, Arduino). Robots have a great potential for motivating students excellently by linking electrical engineering with computer science. Positive impressions by using robots were received for projects like robotic summer program or robot lab project. Furthermore, there is a large number of available systems, like Lego Mindstorms or Robotino, which can be used in classrooms. TechColleges uses robots in university and classrooms to motivate students to become a teacher at a vocational school. The project consists of three levels, in which students are confronted with problems in the field of robotics and teaching activities. This paper describes the individual levels of the project. Level one depicts the obtained results. Level two and three give a preview.
This research was founded by Lower Saxonian Ministry for Science and Culture. I am thankful to the TechColleges project staff who provided expertise that greatly assisted the research.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Federal Employment Agency: Annual Report 2015 - Sixty-fourth Annual Report of the Federal Employment Agency (2017). https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/en
Deissinger, T.: The German dual vocational education and training system as ‘good practice’? Local Econ. 30(5), 557–567 (2015)
Raspberry Pi Foundation: Online Presence of Raspberry Pi platform (2017). https://www.raspberrypi.org/
Arduino LLC.: Online Presence of Arduino platform (2017). https://www.arduino.cc/
Khanlari, A.: Robotics integration to create an authentic learning environment in engineering education. In: Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), pp. 1–4 (2016)
AREXX Engineering: Online Presence of AREXX (2017). http://www.arexx.com/
LEGO Group: Online Presence of Lego Education (2017). https://education.lego.com/
SoftBank Robotics: Online Presence of SoftBank Robotics (2017). https://www.ald.softbankrobotics.com/
Pekarova, J.: Using a programmable toy at preschool age: why and how? In: Teaching with Robotics: Didactic Approaches and Experiences. Workshop of International Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Programming Autonomous Robots (2008)
Santos, C.B., Ferreira, D.J., do Nascimento Rodrigues, M.C.B., Martins, A.R.: Robotics and programming: attracting girls to technology. In: Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), pp. 2052–2056 (2016)
Aroca, R.V., Watanabe, F.Y., Avila, M.T.D., Hernandes, A.C.: Mobile robotics integration in introductory undergraduate engineering courses. In: 2016 XIII Latin American Robotics Symposium and IV Brazilian Robotics Symposium (LARS/SBR), pp. 139–144 (2016)
Mondada, F., Bonani, M., Riedo, F., Briod, M., Pereyre, L., Rétornaz, P., Magnenat, S.: Bringing Robotics into Formal Education Using the Thymio Open Source Hardware Robot. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2017)
Frommberger, D., Reinisch, H.: Development of disparate structures of Dutch and German vocational education. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference Towards a History of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Europe in a Comparative Perspective, pp. 75–87 (2002)
Hippach-Schneider, U., Krause, M., Woll, C.: Vocational Education and Training in Germany - Short Description. European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Euler, D.: Germany’s Dual Vocational Training System: A Model for Other Countries? - A Study Commissioned by the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Bertelsmann Stiftung (2013)
Ostinelli, G.: Teacher education in Italy, Germany, England, Sweden and Finland. Euro. J. Educ. 44(2), 291–308 (2009)
Ministry of Culture of Lower Saxony: Online Presence of Ministry of Culture of Lower Saxony (in German) (2017). http://www.mk.niedersachsen.de
Ministry for School and Further Education North Rhine-Westphalia Online Presence of Ministry for School and Further Education North Rhine-Westphalia (mainly in German) (2017). http://www.schulministerium.nrw.de
Wolters, C.A., Pintrich, P.R., Karabenick, S.A.: Assessing Academic Self-Regulated Learning. What Do Children Need to Flourish?, pp. 251–270. Springer, US (2011)
Paya-Vaya, G., Jambor, T., Septinus, K., Hesselbarth, S., Flatt, H., Freisfeld, M., Pirsch, P.: ChipDesign: from theory to real world. In: Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, pp. 58–64 (2007)
Gouaillier, D., Hugel, V., Blazevic, P., Kilner, C., Monceaux, J., Lafourcade, P., Marnier, B., Serre, J., Maisonnier, B.: Mechatronic design of NAO humanoid. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 769–774. IEEE (2009)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer International Publishing AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Jambor, T.N. (2018). TechColleges. In: Lepuschitz, W., Merdan, M., Koppensteiner, G., Balogh, R., Obdržálek, D. (eds) Robotics in Education. RiE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 630. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62875-2_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62875-2_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-62874-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-62875-2
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)