A Collaborative STEM Project with Educational Mobile Robot on Escaping the Maze: Prototype Design and Evaluation

摘要

In Thailand, many students are bounded to the topic-oriented learning which does not well promote applying knowledge across subject domains. In recent years, STEM strategy has widely been accepted to induce the integration of important learning subjects; meanwhile, educational mobile robot project plays an increasing role to promote students to work collaboratively to construct their robots to achieve the goals. In addition, the project encourages students to learn, to think and to experience learning difficulties on a trial-and-error basis. Therefore, this study proposes a design of collaborative STEM project by using an educational robot to achieve the mission of escaping the maze. Project guidelines and robot specification are illustrated, while a robot racing field with learning challenges and an example robot model were developed. Moreover, a practice guide was designed to facilitate students' collaborative learning activities. With a simple experiment, the attitudes of experts on STEM, robotics, and project design were investigated. The findings of this study could be the ideas for improving the project before the implementation. Besides, other schools and universities could consider this work as a practical guideline to enhance students' foundation to develop innovations in the future.