Why using robots to teach computer science can be successful theoretical reflection to andragogy and minimalism

Koli Calling 2008 - 8th International Conference on Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 32-40

  Koski, Marja Ilona ^a   Kurhila, Jaakko ^a   Pasanen, Tomi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adult education; Adult learning theories; Evaluation; Robots; Teaching experiment

Indexed keywords

ADULT EDUCATION; ADULT LEARNING; ADULT LEARNING THEORIES; ALGORITHMIC REASONING; ANDRAGOGY; EVALUATION; LEARNING OUTCOME; LEGO MINDSTORMS; TEACHING APPROACHES; THEORETICAL ASPECTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EXPERIMENTS; ROBOTS; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 70450177959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1595356.1595363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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