Experiences of Robotics students in Machine Vision course being taught in a foreign language: comprehension, self-efficiency, and active learning strategies improvement

Crisis in Russia in 1990s significantly decreased engineering education quality. To catch up with developed countries, a novel 2-year master program in Intelligent Robotics was designed and implemented at Kazan Federal University based on world leading universities' experience. The program targets to educate competitive specialists with competences that are required by world labor market. To follow students' progress in core robotics courses we conducted surveys. The paper reports survey analysis that was conducted in Machine Vision course and covered such issues as English language comprehension, self-efficiency, and active learning strategies.