Educational STEM Laboratory- An Experimental Paradigm, Theory Design and User Experience Case Study

Peter Chunyu Yau, Dennis Wong, Qiu Hongying

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe the educational and technological design of a highly modularized STEM learning toolkit for students to learn the technologies behind IoT and Fintech through setting up an unmanned smart shop on their own. The modularized design allows students to work individually or collaborate as a team, which facilitates both the teaching needs required from the experimental class and also the self-study needs of researchers. This physical unmanned smart space laboratory is a project from a vocational institute in Hong Kong. We conducted a user study to evaluate the performance of the smart shop learning toolkit and had received positive feedback, in which 87% of the students prefer to learn the smart shop technologies and STEM through our toolkit. Our results demonstrate that our smart technology learning toolkit is an effective and fun way to teach students about STEM and the cutting-edge technologies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2020 6th International Conference on Education and Training Technologies, ICETT 2020
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages9-12
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450387989
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 May 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Conference on Education and Training Technologies, ICETT 2020 - Macau, China
Duration: 18 May 202020 May 2020

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Education and Training Technologies, ICETT 2020
Country/TerritoryChina
CityMacau
Period18/05/2020/05/20

Keywords

  • STEM
  • Smart space
  • Unmanned shop
  • User Experience
  • Vocational training
  • e-Learning

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