Adaptive Educational Resource Model to Promote Robotic Teaching in STEM Courses

This Innovative Practice Category Full Paper presents the proposal of a model to develop adaptive educational resources, with the aim to promote robotic teaching in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) courses. This model was designed to be integrated with a Learning Management System, to suggest customized activities and teaching materials according to students' learning cognitive styles, and it is extensible, can be applied in others areas, not limited to robotics. This model aims at stimulating the teaching programming with robots, providing an environment that students can remotely program robots through a programming language, monitor their evolution in the environment and evaluate the activities that have been suggested. A feasibility study was realized with 6 professors to validate this proposal, and the UTAUT model was applied with 24 students, to validate the acceptance model study.