2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Teaching robotics technology is known challenging due to the multidisciplinary nature of the subject. Leveraging rich robotics instruction videos available online is an effective instructional approach in assisting the learning process for desirable outcomes especially for the flipped classrooms. Teaching robotics with embodied learning instruction technique involves the use of physical embodiment in the learning process for the desirable outcomes. For this purpose, the selection of high quality videos and understanding of the effectiveness of the embodiment process is important. Until present, there is however very little research dedicated to the systematic understanding of the
effectiveness of the physical embodiment focused videos and their potential user engagement in learning robotics. With this research, we have selected 100 Youtube videos with and without embodied learning components randomly, where the comments of the videos were also obtained. Overall, there are 22581 user comments for the 50 videos with embodied learning components. In contrast, there are only 5076 user comments for the videos without embodied learning components.

The sentiment of Youtube video comments were obtained. The sentiment analysis of the video comments showed that the use of embodied learning is effective in engaging learning of robotics, where embodied robotics learning videos receive more number of user comments. In terms of percentage of the sentiment of the user comments, the use of embodied robotics learning videos receive less negative user comments in comparison to the conventional robotics learning videos. In contrast, the use of conventional learning videos receive more positive user comments than the embodied learning centered videos. Experimental results have shown that the use of embodied learning centered videos is effective in facilitating the learning of robotics technology. In summary, our research showed that the use of embodied learning centered videos is effective in engaging user's learning. However, the use of the embodied learning centered videos may lack certain aspects of the learning experiences embedded in the conventional learning centered videos. This is likely attributed to the confusing instructional examples used in the videos and lack a clear explanation of the underlying knowledge, which is therefore able to compromise the learning experiences and the education of the robotics workforce.