Welcome to the "FERTILE" Project

The “FERTILE” project aims to support educators in designing for blended learning by integrating ER simulators and remote collaboration into the educational practice. 

To this end, the main innovation of this approach lies in the way of synthesizing Arts with Robotics to promote Computational Thinking. On the one hand, Arts as a discipline entails Computational Thinking, for example creating art involves problem-solving, representation of expression patterns (e.g. Chekhov pauses, storytelling techniques, animated characters), algorithm development (e.g. directing a choreography), grasp the main idea of a literary text (summary or interpretation). On the other hand, Robotics, physical or online, can be considered a functional part of such processes; students create robots to represent behaviors, scenes, motifs of poems, or to describe a story in creative and out-of-the-box ways.