Designing a MOOC on Computational Thinking, Programming and Robotics for Early Childhood Educators and Primary School Teachers: A Pilot Test Evaluation

This study focuses on developing and evaluating an online course aimed at preschool educators primary school teachers. It presents a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) computational thinking, programming robotics developed as part of the project “Laboratory for Technology Programming Robotics Learning in Primary Preschool Education Portugal (KML II)” The MOOC design was inspired by blended learning model used teacher professional development project’s inception incorporates theoretical-pedagogical models well theoretical interaction virtual educational environments. will be offered NAU platform, Portuguese platform. A pilot test conducted with purposive sample that included both participants from target audience national international experts specialised these domains. evaluation Likert scale questionnaire survey open-ended questions. results aim to validate MOOC’s quality, including its structure, content relevance, proposed activities, design. findings provide evidence improve final version MOOC, contributing effectiveness adequacy audience.