Hi Tommy:

I have found two articles/studies that I think you might find interesting in regard to your requested materials.

The first is:

"Components, Curriculum, and Community: Robots and Robotics in Undergraduate AI Education"

Located at:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220605439_Components_Curriculum_and_Community_Robots_and_Robotics_in_Undergraduate_AI_Education

The next is:

"Sign language recognition and translation: A multidisciplined approach from the field of artificial intelligence".

Can be found at:

http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/content/11/1/94.full

I included the abstract for this one, as an effort to save you some time in case you are not interested in it.

ABSTRACT:

"In recent years, research has progressed steadily in regard to the use of computers to recognize and render sign language. This paper reviews significant projects in the field beginning with finger-spelling hands such as "Ralph" (robotics), CyberGloves (virtual reality sensors to capture isolated and continuous signs), camera-based projects such as the CopyCat interactive American Sign Language game (computer vision), and sign recognition software (Hidden Markov Modeling and neural network systems). Avatars such as "Tessa" (Text and Sign Support Assistant; three-dimensional imaging) and spoken language to sign language translation systems such as Poland's project entitled "THETOS" (Text into Sign Language Automatic Translator, which operates in Polish; natural language processing) are addressed. The application of this research to education is also explored. The "ICICLE" (Interactive Computer Identification and Correction of Language Errors) project, for example, uses intelligent computer-aided instruction to build a tutorial system for deaf or hard-of-hearing children that analyzes their English writing and makes tailored lessons and recommendations. Finally, the article considers synthesized sign, which is being added to educational material and has the potential to be developed by students themselves."

Hope that these can be of some assistance to you!

Article Components, Curriculum, and Community: Robots and Robotics i...

There are quite a few open source robot development environments. Could be quite useful. 

Have a look to Jon Timmis' work.

Tommy,

you may want to have  look at the Robotics in Education conference (e.g. http://rie2015.org). You could possibly also have a look at our paper on a robotics concept inventory (see abstract below). If you can not find it please email.

Abstract—Robotics evolved as a central issue in teaching for scientific and engineering disciplines. However, the community lacks tools allowing quantitative standardized assessment of student learning, in order to subsequently improve teaching. A common concept inventory can play the role of such a tool. We know concept inventories for a number of subjects, for example in the field of Signals and systems [1]. Concept inventories typically consist of a standardized multiple-choice exam that allows assessment of students’ understanding of the most central concepts of a subject. Typically, students are tested before and after having participated in the course. The relative performance gives a numerical value that allows measuring teaching and learning success and possibly also highlights specific problems of the teaching or learning approach. With this paper we want to initialize the process of identifying a list of central concepts in the field of robotics.

Hi Andrew,

Could you recommend or guide me to any you know of?

regs,

Tommy

Im using this http://blog.minibloq.org/ 

Try this

An intro to the Principles of Educational Robotics - let me know what you think?

http://www.naace.co.uk/1948

Hi Mike,

Just had a quick glance at it. It seems really useful and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot.  

Have a look on

-Kolb & Kolb - Experiential learning theory,

-Doignon & Falmagne - Knowledge space theory