Towards an Online Lab Portal for Inquiry-based STEM Learning at School

Nowadays, the knowledge economy is growing rapidly. To sustain future growth, more well educated people in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are needed. In the Go-Lab project we aim to motivate and orient students from an early age on to study STEM fields in their future educational path by applying inquiry learning using online labs. This paper presents an inquiry learning portal where teachers can discover, use and enhance online labs appropriate for their courses and students can acquire scientific methodology skills while doing experiments using the labs. The Go-Lab portal architecture is presented, which contains a repository of online labs, inquiry learning spaces and complementary services. The paper discusses a first version of the portal and our future plans.

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Source Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2013)
Author Govaerts, Sten, Cao, Yiwei, Voznuik, Andrii, Holzer, Adrian, Garbi Zutin, Danilo, San Cristobal Ruiz, Elio, Bollen, Lars, Manske, Sven, Faltin, Nils, Salzmann, Christophe, Tsourlidaki, Eleftheria, Gillet, Denis
Maintainer CCSD
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contributor Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
coverage Kenting, Taiwan
creator Govaerts, Sten
date 2013-10-06T00:00:00
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