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The Application of Robotics in Sustainability Education

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 10442

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Prof. Dr. Nicolás Montés

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Technical School of Design, Architecture and Engineering, CEU Cardenal Herrera University, 46115 Alfara del Patriarca, Valencia, Spain
Interests: Industry 4.0; virtual sensors; Industrial Big Data; Digital Twin
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Dear Colleagues,

Educational robotics has recently appeared in classrooms as a creative process based on trial–error and as a technological process based on the interactions between science, society, and technology which are embodied in the construction, programming, and manipulation of a robotic platform. Although it does not imply a learning methodology in itself, educational robotics can play the role of being a manipulative tool in the teaching process and place the robot as a companion and co-learner of the student, and even as a tutor. Although still in the empirical phase, the already numerous developed scientific studies envision a series of positive contributions that often recur: (1) academic performance, (2) interest and motivation, (3) social skills and cooperative work, (4) creativity, and (5) problem solving skills.

Sustainability will release a Special Issue dedicated to the application of robotics in Sustainability Education which focuses on all educational levels from early childhood to Master or PhD studies. Therefore, original contributions are welcomed where the use of robotic systems, mobile robots, etc., generates positive contributions when teaching sustainability concepts.

Prof. Dr. Nicolás Montés
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Robotics in Education
  • Sustainability
  • STEM
  • STEAM

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EDUROVs: A Low Cost and Sustainable Remotely Operated Vehicles Educational Program
by Xavier Cufí, Albert Figueras, Eduard Muntaner, Remei Calm, Eduardo Quevedo, Daura Vega, Josefina Loustau, José Juan Gil and Joaquín H. Brito
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8657; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13158657 - 03 Aug 2021
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EDUROV is an educational underwater robot proposal from the researchers of the Oceanic Platform of Canary Islands (PLOCAN) and the Computer Vision and Robotics research group of the University of Girona (VICOROB), launched in January 2012 with the support of the Spanish Foundation [...] Read more.
EDUROV is an educational underwater robot proposal from the researchers of the Oceanic Platform of Canary Islands (PLOCAN) and the Computer Vision and Robotics research group of the University of Girona (VICOROB), launched in January 2012 with the support of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT). This program has evolved in the last decade in order to make it more sustainable, allowing the teleoperation of underwater vehicles from anywhere in the world. EDUROVs have passed through several phases, beginning with a basic electronics robot, followed by the incorporation of open-source electronic prototyping platforms and finally reaching the current state of teleoperation. Results based on 1–5 Likert scale questions show that both students and teachers consider the program useful to introduce technical and scientific concepts. It is concluded that the use of low-cost materials and tools that are easy to obtain, following education on sustainability approaches, also makes them possible for use in high schools, and science teachers can easily carry out the activity. Moreover, the possibility of remote teleoperation of underwater vehicles, together with the collaboration among groups of students in different locations that are in contact through these online tools, allows one to motivate students to work on the project from a different perspective. Full article
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Sustainable Educational Robotics. Contingency Plan during Lockdown in Primary School
by Judit Alamo, Eduardo Quevedo, Alejandro Santana Coll, Samuel Ortega, Himar Fabelo, Gustavo M. Callico and Alberto Zapatera
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8388; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13158388 - 27 Jul 2021
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New technologies have offered great alternatives for education. In this context, we place robotics and programming as innovative and versatile tools that adapt to active methodologies. With the arrival of COVID-19 and lockdowns, physical resources were kept out of use, and the virtual [...] Read more.
New technologies have offered great alternatives for education. In this context, we place robotics and programming as innovative and versatile tools that adapt to active methodologies. With the arrival of COVID-19 and lockdowns, physical resources were kept out of use, and the virtual lectures did not propose to incorporate these elements in a meaningful way. This recent situation raises as an objective of study the need to evaluate if robotics and programming are content that can be taught virtually in these circumstances, without physical resources and without face-to-face lectures. To do this, a mixed methodology consisting of questionnaires and interviews has been incorporated, aimed at primary education teachers, families, and primary education grade students. The results suggest that the virtualization of robotics and programming is a feasible and beneficial alternative for students, which allows the development of digital skills, while it is enhanced with the use of audiovisual materials and online resources. Even though face-to-face classes have other benefits not offered by virtualization, and teacher training needs to be up to the task to face this situation, it is a matter of time to respond to these situations and to guarantee a high-quality distance education. Full article
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“Sustainable City”: A Steam Project Using Robotics to Bring the City of the Future to Primary Education Students
by Francisco Ruiz Vicente, Alberto Zapatera Llinares and Nicolás Montés Sánchez
Sustainability 2020, 12(22), 9696; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12229696 - 20 Nov 2020
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This article presents a STEAM project, “Sustainable City”, based on educational robotics whose objective is to bring the problems of climate change closer to primary school students. The participants were 30 students (aged 10–11) from 5th year of Primary Education and the project [...] Read more.
This article presents a STEAM project, “Sustainable City”, based on educational robotics whose objective is to bring the problems of climate change closer to primary school students. The participants were 30 students (aged 10–11) from 5th year of Primary Education and the project consisted of 14 sessions in which different active methodologies such as project-based learning, collaborative learning and the flipped classroom were carried out. A pre-test and a post-test were carried out and the results were better in the post-test, which indicates that the students improved their skills and increased their motivation. As a conclusion, this STEAM project, which is adapted to the Spanish LOMCE curriculum, can be a reference for other teachers to bring their students closer to the problem of environmental change through educational robotics and the use of active methodologies. Full article
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