Program
Half a day, built around a bench
A sketch rather than a schedule: 3h 30m of session time on 30 November 2026. Start time and room are assigned by the local organisers and appear here once the conference publishes them.
The shape of the day
Six blocks, in order
15min
+0m in
Framing: what a robotics atelier has to survive
The organisers set out the three constraints — cost, representation, risk — that the day is organised around.
40min
+15m in
Invited talk
One invited speaker on teaching robotics at scale. The speaker is being approached and will be named here.
60min
+55m in
Full papers
Three 20-minute presentations with questions, weighted towards work that reports measured outcomes.
20min
+1h 55m in
Coffee, with the bench open
The demonstration hardware stays running through the break. This is deliberate: most of the useful conversation at a robotics workshop happens next to a robot.
45min
+2h 15m in
Short papers and demonstrations
Shorter talks paired with the tools they describe, so a claim about a simulator can be checked against the simulator.
30min
+3h 00m in
Panel: what web-based learning research owes the robotics classroom
A closing discussion, seeded by the day’s papers, on which open problems the ICWL–SETE community is best placed to take on.
The paper counts assume the workshop fills. If fewer papers are accepted than the slots allow, the discussion and bench time grow rather than the day shrinking — the conversation next to a working robot is the part that does not happen anywhere else.
Two commitments
What the format is trying to protect
The bench stays open
Demonstration hardware runs through the coffee break rather than being packed away between sessions. Authors presenting a kit, a simulator or a classroom tool are asked to bring it in a state where somebody else can touch it. A tool that only works in a video is not really being demonstrated.
Remote authors present live
The conference sells an online registration rate, so authors who register online present in their own session slot rather than by recording. For a workshop about teaching robotics over the web, running a hybrid session badly would be an awkward thing to do.
Not yet fixed
What is still open
Listed rather than left blank, so an author can see what is genuinely undecided and what is simply not published yet.
The invited speaker
One invited talk is planned. The speaker is being approached and will be named here — with the talk title — rather than announced as “to be confirmed” indefinitely.
Room and start time
Assigned by the local organisers at the University of La Laguna once the workshop programme for 30 November is finalised.
Accepted papers
Presentations are scheduled after notification on 16 October 2026. The programme above is the shape they will be fitted into.
The same day
Five workshops run alongside this one on 30 November
All ICWL–SETE 2026 workshops are held on 30 November 2026, before the main conference opens.
QCLA 2026
1st Qualification-Centric Learning Ecosystems and AI-Supported Learning Pathways
GAIE 2026
3rd International Workshop on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education
Workshop siteSHINE 2026
1st Social Robotics and AI for Human-Centred Inclusion, Learning and Wellbeing
1st Emerging technologies in education Universities and AI
2nd AI and IoT-Enabled Technologies for Medical Education, Assessment, and Personalized Learning in Digital Age