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Recently,“Robo Siam1” team from Siam University won The Best Creativity Awards in Robot@Home Championship 2011 and received the privilege of representing Thailand in the global-level “World RoboCup : Robot@Home 2012” contest in Mexico. seeking further success in the prospective robotics competitions, motivated the university to develop an optional robotics course (not core course) — for those sophomore students of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science programs— who voluntarily are interested to know more about robots and learning online. The course was designed based on the open source DARwIn-OP (Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence Open Platform). The winning team — and couple of sophisticated IT lectures— were appointed to design the syllabus and the course modules. Moreover, two lab sessions per week were dedicated to the design module of the course. From the theory (e-Learning) perspective, students learned how to setup, configure and program specific functions of a DARwIn-OP humanoid robot. In general, the course consisted of four main modules: (1) Motion, (2) Vision, (3) Hardware, and (4) Miscellaneous robotics topics. From the hardware perspective, students learned about the hardware components of a DARwIn-OP robot such as actuators, sensors, display and interfaces. Overall, the online course taught students on how to setup, configure and program specific functions of a DARwIn-OP humanoid robot. The objective of the paper is to identify the most significant factors affecting students’ satisfaction toward the developed course. The findings show that “Self-efficacy” and “Perceived Usefulness” are the most important determinants of students’ satisfaction. |
