go-lab communities & go-lab academy

© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at SchoolCo-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)

Outreach and Community

Building

Rosa Doran, Jens Koslowsky, Georgios

Mavromanolakis, Diana Dikke and Sofoklis Sotiriou

Go-Lab Review Meeting, Dec. 14th 2016, Luxembourg

Developing an engaging science classroom and a sustainable Go-Lab Community

• Trust to teachers’ professionalism

• Training and Supporting Teachers to use On-line Labs in the classroom

• Design for Every Classroom

• Effective and systematic Organisation of the on-line labs

• Go-Lab Framework for the introduction of on-line labs in school classrooms

Teachers Trained

1660

Schools

1047 Registered

Users

6517

Authors

3877

Inquiry LearningSpaces

Implemented

768

Implemented

44% in school hours

x2.8 times

School ‘Students’

21504 access users40000 actual

students

Go-Lab faces and numbers Go-Lab Dissemination Strategy

© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)

Total: 82.052 unique visitors

on the project website

Go-Lab faces and numbers Go-Lab Dissemination Strategy


Total: 558 events (26.964 participants)

Go-Lab faces and numbersHow to build a sustainable community

Engagement Activities


Go-Lab faces and numbersTraining Activities


Go-Lab community on social media


Sumper year

Total: 3.668

followers, group members,

newsletter recipients

Go-Lab faces and numbersSupport Activities


Go-Lab MOOC for teachers


o 563 participants

o 62 certificates (11%)

o 71% STEM-teachers

o 74% new to Go-Lab

o 39% via Go-Lab social media

o About 20% each via

online media an EU project workshop an EU project Go-Lab website colleague’s recommendation

Go-Lab faces and numbersRecognition



Go-Lab faces and numbers

Community - Contest


Go-Lab faces and numbers

Community – Summer Schools

Go-Lab faces and numbersLive Community – from explorer to ambassador


User

Ambassador

Developer

Explorer

Implementation - Highlights

General introduction

and first teacher training

Follow-up hands-on

workshops

Activities with students

in schools

• What is IBSE

• What is online lab

• What is Golab

• What is an ILS

• Hands-on practice

on portal, labs, apps,

graasp/authoring etc.

• Explore opportunities

of use within the

STEM curriculum

• Adopt a ready-made

ILS or start creating

a new one

… or in out-of-school settingsAND

…A N D

become creators of

inquiry learning content

Teachers have created more than 1500 ILSs

429 of which are now published on golabz.eu

AND

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Authors per ILS

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Power (overall)

Power (in-school)

Lessons Learnt:Mainstreaming Go-Lab Results

&Recommendations for the introduction of on-

line labs in schools

Ministries of Education


o Cooperation with the EUN’s STEM representatives working group: Austria, Belgium, Estonia, France, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey

o Numerous meetings with MoEs of different European countrires(Austria, Belgium, Estonia, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, etc.)

o Go-Lab presentation and booth at the EMINENT conference, November 2015, Spain

o Accredited Go-Lab courses in Portugal and Basque Country

o Dissemination in Germany and product announcement at „Digital education for all!“ event

Scientific publications


31 publications (Year 4)

90 publications (total)

o Keynote presenting Go-Lab at the Kennisnet/NRO Research Days, 1,500 participants, June 2016, the Netherlands

o Several Go-Lab workshops in scope of JTEL Summer School, June 2016, Estonia

o Go-Lab demo and several paper presentations at DeLFI conference, September 2016, Germany

Dissemination Highlights


o Go-Lab presentation for related projects and Go-Lab presentation and workshop for Heads of Schools, 9th Scientix project's networking event, November 2015, Belgium

o Various workshops for experienced Go-Lab teachers and novices,12th Science Projects Workshop in the FCL, June 2016, Belgium

o Go-Lab presentation at Global Hands-On Universe event, August 2016, Norway

Dissemination Highlights


Go-Lab Teachers Academy: An Exploitation Plan for the Go-Lab

Community

Trust to teachers’ professionalism

• Behavioral Change: Towards a community of content creators

• The main recommendation from our work is that teachers could be co-designers in the reform efforts. Instead of allocating resources to developing new educational materials curriculum developers have to offer to teachers the appropriate guidance and support to harmonize existing resources to their needs.

Supporting Teachers to use On-line Labs in the classroom

Recipe of a successful community


Visionary Workshops Face-2-face training Online SupportCertification and

AccreditationTeacher communities

Practice Reflection /

Summative Workshops

Online – MOOCs ,

webinars

Demo activities in

schoolsContests Teacher Mailing list

Pilot Days International / National

SchoolsTeacher’s Helpdesk Digital Badges Pilot’s Cascade

Online

SupportBest Practices

International Teacher’s

Gathering Events

Explorer User Developer Pilot Ambassador

Using the

Go-Lab

environment

Get acquainted

with Go-Lab portal

and the ILS model

Explore and adopt

some ILSCreate their own ILS

Implement ILS with

their studentsTrain others

ICT Skills Basic ICT skills

Acquainted with

the use of online

labs and

simulations

Capable of

developing online

lessons and create

metadata

Skilled in the use of

ICT, in the creation

of learning

scenarios, etc.

Capable of sharing

their expertise with

others

IBSE

experienceNew to IBSE

Some experience in

student centred

approaches

Has experience in

the IBSE model

Skilled in using the

IBSE model with

students

Master IBSE and is

capable of

introducing others to

the concept

Online /

Remote Labs

Integrate some labs

in their lessons

Integrate ILS in

their lessons

Develop ILS and

pilot test them

Integrate the use of

ILS in several

lessons

Support other

teachers to

implement ILS in

their classrooms

Teacher’s Competence Profile

Effectiveness of the support mechanism


Ref to Go-Lab registered users (100%)

Implementation in educational settings


Ref to Go-Lab registered users (100%)

Design for Every Classroom

• This analysis demonstrates that both curriculum developers and on-line lab providers should have a clear view of the school settings where such interventions are taking place. The main characteristics of the system, its functionalities and well as the approach that it facilitates have to take into account the classroom reality. Again the open structure and the modular approach of systems like the Go-Lab could help teacher to easily adopt the proposed interventions into their classroom settings.

Effective and systematic Organisation of the on-line labs

Beyond Curricula Restrictions: Big Ideas of Science• Defining a relevant set of big ideas and positioning the on-line labs

on this set was a major pedagogical innovation in Go-Lab project. Furthermore, the inquiry learning spaces have been developed in such a way that they are modular enough to be easily included, that they are adaptable so that they can be adjusted to a certain extend to the curriculum, and that they are tagged with appropriate metadata so that teachers can find the on-line labs that fit their needs. These actions were based on curriculum and teachers’ competences analysis that were carried out in the project. The project has designed one overarching approach to ensure that inquiry learning spaces will find their way into curricula of different countries. This will help teacher to place an on-line lab at the correct place in the curriculum.

Go-Lab Framework for the introduction of on-line labs in school

classrooms

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