The HEART Project’s Initiative in Enhancing Adult Learning Environments Through Robotics

In this paper we describe the development of curricula for training educators for the use of robotics in adult education. The goal of this Erasmus+ project was to improve the teachers’, trainers’, and mentors’ abilities in using robotics, with a special focus on persons with disabilities. The proposed approach was to provide materials both for teaching robotics to improve STEM skills as well as show robotics in larger context of their possible social impact, growing role of AI in society and ethical issues related to the use of robots. The project resulted in a database of educational robots and a series of workshops with a website based materials for teachers. The website and the materials were evaluated in a pilot study in Poland and the results are presented in this paper. The results show that the materials are useful for educators and the workshops are effective in improving the teachers’ skills in using robotics in education.