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Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning in Schools

Victor J. Perez Rubio Project Administrator & Pedagogical adviser

European Schoolnet

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Project:Funding: FP7Duration: 4 years

Nov‘12–Oct‘16Partners: 19Countries: 11

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What is Go-Lab:

The Go-Lab project makes remote and online laboratories available for large-scale use in education.

Main aims:

Offer students the opportunity to perform personalized scientific experiments with online labs.

Offers teachers the possibility to enrich their classroom activities with demonstrations and access to lab and activities. Access to the online Go-Lab community is also provided.

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What is Go-Lab & Main aims

Students learning with online labs gain … more knowledge than students following expository instruction more advanced knowledge than students who learn in a real lab

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But students need support in the form of an inquiry learning cycle and inquiry scaffolds

(apps)!de Jong, T. (2006). Computer simulations - Technological advances in inquiry learning. Science, 312, 532-533.de Jong, T., Linn, M.C., & Zacharia, Z.C. (2013). Physical and virtual laboratories in science and engineering education. Science, 340, 305-308

Online labs are effective!

Inquiry Learning Cycle

Inquiry Learning Space (student view)

Inquiry Learning Scaffolds

Go-Lab RepositoryOnline labs

Apps Inquiry Learning Spaces

Authoring Platform (Graasp)Creating & customizing Inquiry Learning Spaces

Tutoring Platform

Getting support from experts in video

sessions

Go-Lab Portal

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Go-Lab in the praxis

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15 pilot countries + several international countries

More than 1,200 schools More than 1,500 teachers Two pilot phases

completed Third pilot phase

happening now

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Go-Lab in the praxis

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Workshops with teachers SPW 22-24 April

Go-Lab Summer Schools golab.ea.gr Competition

Online support on golabz.tutoring.eu Go-Lab Forum

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Teachers:

Expressed their enthusiasm about the features of Go-Lab

Expressed their willingness to create ILSs

Need more training in order to use Go-Lab systematically

Reported the lack of time and resources

Reported the lack of ICT in school

Students:

Were very excited with Go-Lab

Were able to use the online labs and tools in the ILS

Enjoyed their lesson

Expressed their willingness to use the Go-Lab again in their future lessons

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Thank you for your attention!

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Victor J. Perez-Rubio Project Administrator & Pedagogical Adviser

victor.perez@eun.org