Specific features of organization of learning activity in online community of schoolchildren in the process of programming teaching with the use of the visual environments and the robotics educational kits

The article deals with the issues of programming teaching with the use of the visual environments and the robotics educational kits in the educational online communities of the schoolchildren. There are discussed the approaches to the comprehension of the term “educational online community” and the peculiarities of the creation of the educational online communities as the collective subject of the activity in the virtual environment of the InterneT. The authors give the examples of the organization of the learning activity of the schoolchildren with the use of the mixed technologies on the basis of the online communities of the schoolchildren in the process of the programming training with the use of the visual environments and the robotics educational kits.