10th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology

Authors - Amna Altaf, Zeashan Khan, Adeel Mehmood, Jamshed Iqbal
Abstract - Advancements in Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics call for prioritising research in education and pedagogy in these domains including teachers’ training to practice emerging learning and teaching strategies. This paper explores the model of teachers’ training by using CDIO (Conceiving, Designing, Implementing and Operation) framework as a guide and a robotic platform as an example in AI education. In the pilot study, nine workshop sessions were designed and organised for a group of five teachers introducing them to robotics-led delivery of AI content using a mobile robot ‘Duckiebot’. The prominent workshop contents include robot vision, object detection, state estimation and localisation, task planning and reinforcement learning. Preliminary results in the form of feedback from the workshop participants demonstrated that the teaching model presented in this study made a promising contribution in terms of improving teachers’ intellectual and pedagogical skills as well as their confidence in achieving learning outcomes. The presented CDI-based robotics-led AI teaching model adds to the dialogue on innovative AI and engineering education methods. It is anticipated that wider dissemination of the findings in this research will lay the groundwork for a larger educational impact.