Robotics Labs and Other Hands-On Teaching During COVID-19: Change Is Here to Stay?

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic had profound effects on almost all aspects of daily life, including education, where it led to a rapid and massive switch to online teaching. There is evidence that the responses to the pandemic will have lasting effects in higher education and that they have accelerated the trend that (elements of) online education will be the new normal in higher education <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref13" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[13]</xref> . For example, students expect, as a main change for universities, that, in 10 years’ time, most lectures will be online <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref18" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">[18]</xref> .