Intelligent Educational Robots: Toward Personalized Learning Environments

This book covers various topics and trends about the advancements of maker education and the use of intelligent educational robots (IER), artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, and machine learning in P-12 education. It emphasizes promoting students (SR). The main aim of the book is to offer an overview of recent research into the adoption, integration, advancements, and impact of IER on education in the context of maker education. The topics include the application of various technologies and educational approaches for realizing IER and enhance maker education. It presents findings and discussion on applications, addresses open issues and challenges, offers solutions, and provides suggestions for future lines of research for achieving IER. This book assists researchers, practitioners, professionals, and academicians of various scientific domains in exploring and better comprehending the state-of-the-art of maker education and IER, their advancements, their impact and future potentials and benefits in education.

Stamatios Papadakis has been a postdoctoral researcher in Educational Technology, emphasizing mobile learning, at the Department of Preschool Education at the University of Crete, Greece, since 2016. His scientific and research interests include the study of mobile learning, especially on using smart mobile devices and their accompanying mobile applications (apps) in Preschool and Primary Education, focusing on developing Computational Thinking and students’ understanding of numbers. Furthermore, his research interests include ICT in education, novice programming environments and teaching of programming in Primary and Secondary Education (novice programmers). He has published over 120 articles in international conferences and journals and has served on the program committees of numerous international conferences. He has published in journals such as ＂Computers & Education＂ (Elsevier), ＂Education and Information Technologies＂ (EAIT) (Springer) and ＂Early Childhood Education Journal＂ (Springer) and edited books in Springer and IGI Global. In 2020, 2021, and 2022, Papadakis was included in the world’s most outstanding scientists ranking. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. This work uses Scopus data provided by Elsevier through ICSR Lab (https: //www.elsevier.com/icsr/icsrlab).

Georgios Lampropoulos has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering at International Hellenic University (IHU) since 2020 from which he also earned his PhD in July 2023. He holds a BSc degree in