The Findings Group, LLC

Authors: Jennifer S Kay, Tom Mcklin

Abstract

Educational Robotics for Absolute Beginners is a MOOC designed to introduce K-12 teachers with no prior computer science or robotics experience to the basics of LEGO NXT Robot programming. The course was developed following several successful in-person workshops on the same topic. This paper introduces some of the issues that arose as we transitioned the material to a MOOC, describes some of the unique challenges we faced by incorporating specialized hardware into a MOOC, and presents some preliminary data evaluating the success of our approach.

Citation:
Kay, Jennifer & Mcklin, Tom. (2014). The challenges of using a MOOC to introduce absolute beginners to programming on specialized hardware. 211-212. 10.1145/2556325.2567886.