Abstract
Teachers’ knowledge and skills have a great impact on students’ learning outcomes. Teachers’ vocational training has been a research topic in technology-enhanced learning for years. The Go-Lab project aims to engage school students with STEM topics by bringing online laboratory experiments based on inquiry learning approach into the classroom. In Go-Lab, teachers’ knowledge and skills in inquiry learning with online labs are important. Thus, we have launched the Go-Lab Tutoring Platform, a social tutoring platform for teachers’ expertise sharing and community building through virtual tutoring sessions. In this paper, we present the first rollout results of the tutoring platform based on five teachers’ training events. We explore the practical activities for efficient knowledge sharing between teachers and pedagogical experts, in order to build up teachers’ community.
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The project homepage: http://www.go-lab-project.eu.
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The Go-Lab Portal: http://www.golabz.eu.
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Inquiry learning spaces (ILS) are learning environments that can contain labs, learning resources and apps to enable inquiry-based learning.
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Google Hangouts: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/.
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Information about the contest: http://www.go-lab-project.eu/teacher-contest.
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Google Hangouts on Air: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html.
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The survey is available at http://goo.gl/forms/rDexYxiSdY.
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This research is partially funded by the European Union in the context of the Go-Lab project (Grant Agreement no. 317601) under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the 7th Framework Programme for R&D (FP7. This document does not represent the opinion of the European Union, and the European Union is not responsible for any use that might be made of its content.
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Cao, Y. et al. (2015). STEM Teachers’ Community Building Through a Social Tutoring Platform. In: Li, F., Klamma, R., Laanpere, M., Zhang, J., Manjón, B., Lau, R. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning -- ICWL 2015. ICWL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9412. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25515-6_22
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