Online robotics technology course design by balancing workload and affect

This paper describes our course design approach that successfully transformed an undergraduate Robotics Technology from in-person teaching to online guided by the TASKS model. Our redesign process includes identifying conflicts, generating solutions, self-evaluation, and analyses of solutions. We carefully balanced between Workload students’ Affect, designing comparable workloads as before, well maintaining motivation similarly at level. Transforming this consisting lecture sessions lab with hardware software elements yielded a set activities practices applicable other courses. When physical robots become unavailable, simulation projects were designed alternatives simulated versions those used in face-to-face classroom. These are areas autonomous mobile robots, robotic manipulator, advanced control on MATLAB-ROS, respectively. Comparisons past results confirm effective learning has been achieved remotely, having maintained student’s performance motivation.