The UTAUT Model Applied to Examine the STEM in Hight School Robot Subject Instruction

• Published in: Education and Technology in Sciences Vol. 1191; pp. 36 - 46
• Main Authors: Hsieh, Chi-Chieh, Chiu, Fu-Yuan
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2020; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science
• Subjects: Robot Subject Instruction; STEM education; Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology
• ISBN: 303045343X; 9783030453435
• ISSN: 1865-0929; 1865-0937
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45344-2_4

Since the rise of the waves toward artificial intelligence, more and more countries’ robot education has changed from Robot-Assisted Instruction (RAI) to Robot-Subject Instruction (RSI). This study mainly compares the differences between the two teaching methods of RSI using traditional single subject teaching and STEM cross-disciplinary teaching. Through the data of Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and Course Satisfaction, this study finds out the advantages and disadvantages of STEM integration into RSI. The results of this study show that the Traditional RSI has a lower learning burden in the knowledge learning units, so the satisfaction is higher, but the Competition activities unit at the end of the period is prone to problems, causing a decline in satisfaction, while the STEM-based RSI students are the opposite, and the validation of students’ positive attitude towards STEM model learning after participating in robotics activities.