The challenges of using a MOOC to introduce "Absolute beginners" to programming on specialized hardware

Jennifer Kay; Tom McKlin

doi:10.1145/2556325.2567886

The challenges of using a MOOC to introduce "Absolute beginners" to programming on specialized hardware

Jennifer Kay, Tom McKlin

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	211-212
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2556325.2567886
State	Published - Jan 1 2014
Event	1st ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L@S 2014 - Atlanta, GA, United States Duration: Mar 4 2014 → Mar 5 2014

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Other	1st ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L@S 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta, GA
Period	3/4/14 → 3/5/14

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Computer Networks and Communications
Software

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