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Teaching Research Methodologies with a Robot in a CS Lab Course

Landhäußer, Mathias; Weigelt, Sebastian; Blersch, Martin

Abstract:

We describe a computer science lab course that teaches a scientific research methodology. Our course is based on a recent research project and augments it with a motivating goal: We program a robot based on the Lego EV3 brick with plain English. Our students developed a multi-module solution; all modules were planned, implemented, and benchmarked following a research life cycle.
The results of our case study indicate that a lab course can familiarize students with academic research methodologies. Interviews with the participants, conducted half a year after the lab course, confirm our positive impressions: Our participants indeed internalized the research life cycle and all told us that they wanted to pursue research in their upcoming curriculum. Three of four stated that the possibility to monitor progress by running solutions on the robot was highly motivating.


Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62875-2_16
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation (IPD)
Publikationstyp Proceedingsbeitrag
Publikationsjahr 2017
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISBN: 978-3-319-62875-2
ISSN: 2194-5357
KITopen-ID: 1000067420
Erschienen in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RIE) : Latest Results and Developments, Sofia, Bulgaria, 26th - 28th April 2017. Ed.: R. Balogh
Verlag Springer Verlag
Seiten 180-192
Serie Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ; 630
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Schlagwörter Natural Language Processing, NLP, Software Engineering, Research Life Cycle, Teaching, Lab Course
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