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Including online labs in science education classrooms
- 1. © Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for
Inquiry Learning at School Co-funded by EU
(7th Framework Programme)
Including online labs in science education
classrooms: theory, evidence,
and the Go-Lab technological
affordances
Ton de Jong
Department of
Instructional
Technology
University of Twente
- 2. Inquiry Learning
Go-Lab online laboratories
Occuring problems & solutions
Offers by Go-Lab
Contents
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Framework Programme)
- 3. We need engaging (science and
engineering) instruction
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Framework Programme)
- 4. 4© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
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- 5. Trends and technology
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Constructive (inquiry) learning
Collaborative learning
Situated learning
Computer simulations/
games/online laboratories
Modeling (design) environments
Shared objects
Chatsm, video conferencing
Simulators/Online laboratories
- 6. Inquiry is an approach to learning that involves a process
of exploration, that leads to asking questions and making
discoveries in the search for new understandings
Based on „Foundations“, Vol. 2, NSF, 2000
Inquiry learning
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Framework Programme)
- 7. Example projects
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ZAP
- 8. Example projects
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Framework Programme)
SCY
- 9. Example projects
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Framework Programme)
SimQuest
- 10. Example projects
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Framework Programme)
Co-Lab
- 11. Example projects
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- 12. Virtual laboratories
Mimic physical equipment in software
Remote laboratories
Physical equipment that can be operated on a distance
Data sets and their analysis tools
Data gathered in real experiments
Go-Lab online laboratories
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Co-funded by EU (7th
Framework Programme)
- 13. Virtual laboratory - buoyancy
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- 14. Remote lab
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- 15. Remote laboratory – Methyl Orange
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Framework Programme)
- 16. Data-set/analysis tools - Hypatia
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- 17. They don‘t know how to state hypotheses
They create poor experiments
They do not monitor what they have done
There is poor planning
Etc. etc.
Do students know how to perform
inquiry processes?
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Framework Programme)
- 18. Guidance
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Process contraints
Prompts/ assignments
Heuristics
Scaffolds
Background info
Hypothesis scratchpad
Experiment design tool
Data interpreters
Monitoring tool
Etc. etc.
- 19. If well designed, guidance included, inquiry-based
learning with online labs and simulations shows an
advantage over expository instruction
Are simulations/online labs
effective?
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Framework Programme)
de Jong, T. (2006). Computer simulations -
Technological advances in inquiry learning.
Science, 312, 532-533.
- 20. Students in online labs gain the same level of
knowledge or a more advanced level of knowledge than
students who learn in a real laboratory
Are simulations/ online labs
effective?
20© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th
Framework Programme)
de Jong, T., Linn, M.C., & Zacharia, Z.C. (2013).
Physical and virtual laboratories in science and
engineering education. Science, 340, 305-308.
- 21. For students
Go-Lab organizes the work according to an inquiry cycle
Go-Lab offers guidance specific for each phase
For teachers
A searchable database of online labs
Authoring facilities for teachers to adapt the guidance for
their students
What Go-Lab offers
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Framework Programme)
- 22. The Go-Lab Inquiry Cycle
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- 24. Concept map
Hypothesis/question scratchpad
Experiment design tool
Data analysis tool
Conclusion tool
Reflection tool
Scaffolds in Go-Lab
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- 25. Example Go-Lab environment
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- 27. Go-Lab authoring
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Create Inquiry
Space button
- 28. Go-Lab in one slide
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Framework Programme)
Federation of online labs
Embedding into educational
resources and guidance
Sharing with the community of users
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- 30. Educational Science and Technology in Twente
(click on the picture)
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- 31. Thank you
for your attention!
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