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, this approach’s main innovation lies in 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, algorithm development, grasp the main idea of a literary text. On the other hand, physical or online robots can be considered a functional part of such processes; students create robots to represent behaviours, scenes, and motifs of poems or to describe a story in creative and out-of-the-box ways.