TY  - GEN
A1  - Staubitz, Thomas
A1  - Teusner, Ralf
A1  - Meinel, Christoph
T1  - MOOCs in Secondary Education
BT  - Experiments and Observations from German Classrooms
T2  - 2019 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)
N2  - Computer science education in German schools is often less than optimal. It is only mandatory in a few of the federal states and there is a lack of qualified teachers. As a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) provider with a German background, we developed the idea to implement a MOOC addressing pupils in secondary schools to fill this gap. The course targeted high school pupils and enabled them to learn the Python programming language. In 2014, we successfully conducted the first iteration of this MOOC with more than 7000 participants. However, the share of pupils in the course was not quite satisfactory. So we conducted several workshops with teachers to find out why they had not used the course to the extent that we had imagined. The paper at hand explores and discusses the steps we have taken in the following years as a result of these workshops.
KW  - MOOC
KW  - Secondary Education
KW  - School
KW  - Teamwork
KW  - K-12
KW  - Programming course
KW  - Java
KW  - Python
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-1-5386-9506-7
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2019.8725138
SN  - 2165-9567
SP  - 173
EP  - 182
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
ER  -