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Advanced Scratch 2.0 Online Course for Middle School Teachers and Students

May 31, 2016

More than 800 teachers and 1,400 students enrolled in the Advanced Scratch 2.0 online course, which was entirely designed and produced by Universidad ORT Uruguay the Ceibal Plan. It was developed using the CREA2 (Schoology) platform in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) format, in which lessons are presented as short videos accompanied by supplementary materials, downloadable examples, assessments, and discussion forums. The course launched on May 20, 2016.

Its goal is to explore more advanced programming concepts and the new features of Scratch 2.0 as a programming language for creating animations and video games. It is a follow-up to the Scratch 1.4 Basic course, also developed by ORT for Plan Ceibal in 2013.

Academic coordination is led by Dr. Inés Friss de Kereki, Professor of Programming at the School of Engineering, who also serves as an instructor alongside Marcelo Rubino, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Programming, and Ismael Rodríguez, Ph.D., Research Teaching Assistant. Project coordination was led by Dr. Plinio Gañi, a distance education analyst and programming instructor at the faculty.