Each of the Spanish universities Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) and Universidad de Valladolid (UVa) in Madrid and Valladolid conducted a pilot study in February and March 2024 respectively.
Both pilot studies followed the same organization and involved 22 participants pursuing Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in teaching education. The participants familiarised themselves with the “FERTILE” training material, tinkered with various educational robotics kits, and collaborated to design projects combining Arts and Educational Robotics in the “FERTILE” community platform.
Ultimately, they provided feedback on their experience, allowing the “FERTILE” consortium to improve and augment the project results, including the “FERTILE” methodology, community platform, training material and the training process.
