Abstract
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can be especially useful in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) field to provide a large number of teachers with appropriate content for their professional development. On the other hand, we still have to think, how to use STEAM in virtual platforms for robotical learning (r-learning) and ensure appropriate skills attainment of teachers.
Best practices, how to design better MOOCs for teacher’s professional development, are still in search. In this paper, we offer MOOCs with a theoretical background describing STEAM models for teachers continues professional development (TCPD).
The aim of the paper is to present the relationship between proposed framework for teachers’ professional development in STEAM and MOOC platform.
The objectives of the study are: 1) to presents the analysis of the existing STEAM models for teachers’ professional development; 2) to presents framework for teachers’ professional development in STEAM Teacher Training & Training Curriculum model with robotical education; 3) to presents methodology for MOOC design on Framework for Teacher Professional Development in STEAM usage for r-learning implementation.
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This study is a part of the Erasmus+ project “Fostering steam education in schools (EDUSIMSTEAM)” dissemination activities. The project EDUSIMSTEAM (612855-EPP-1-2019-1-TR-EPPKA3-PI-FORWARD) is co-funded by European Commission.
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Burbaitė, R. et al. (2022). Designing MOOC Based on the Framework for Teacher Professional Development in STEAM. In: Lopata, A., Gudonienė, D., Butkienė, R. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1665. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16302-9_26
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