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ERIC Number: EJ1296078
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Apr
Pages: 28
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ISSN: ISSN-1042-1629
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Understanding Teacher Design Practices for Digital Inquiry-Based Science Learning: The Case of Go-Lab
de Jong, Ton; Gillet, Denis; Rodríguez-Triana, María Jesús; Hovardas, Tasos; Dikke, Diana; Doran, Rosa; Dziabenko, Olga; Koslowsky, Jens; Korventausta, Miikka; Law, Effie; Pedaste, Margus; Tasiopoulou, Evita; Vidal, Gérard; Zacharia, Zacharias C.
Educational Technology Research and Development, v69 n2 p417-444 Apr 2021
Designing and implementing online or digital learning material is a demanding task for teachers. This is even more the case when this material is used for more engaged forms of learning, such as inquiry learning. In this article, we give an informed account of Go-Lab, an ecosystem that supports teachers in creating Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILSs). These ILSs are built around STEM-related online laboratories. Within the Go-Lab ecosystem, teachers can combine these online laboratories with multimedia material and learning apps, which are small applications that support learners in their inquiry learning process. The Go-Lab ecosystem offers teachers ready-made structures, such as a standard inquiry cycle, alternative scenarios or complete ILSs that can be used as they are, but it also allows teachers to configure these structures to create personalized ILSs. For this article, we analyzed data on the design process and structure of 2414 ILSs that were (co)created by teachers and that our usage data suggest have been used in classrooms. Our data show that teachers prefer to start their design from empty templates instead of more domain-related elements, that the makeup of the design team (a single teacher, a group of collaborating teachers, or a mix of teachers and project members) influences key design process characteristics such as time spent designing the ILS and number of actions involved, that the characteristics of the resulting ILSs also depend on the type of design team and that ILSs that are openly shared (i.e., published in a public repository) have different characteristics than those that are kept private.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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