Go-LabGlobal Online Science Labs

for Inquiry Learning at School

Denis Gillet

Session 2: Social Data & Analytics:Social data aggregation for learning recommenders & analytics

11th EdReNe Conference, Tuesday, May 6th, 2014, Athens, Greece

‣ Go-Lab EU Project • Nov 2012 • 4 years • 10M€

• Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School

• Objective: Raise interest for and stimulate carriers in STEM using online labs (remote labs • virtual labs • scientific data)

• Project and Pedagogical Coordinator: University of Twente

• Community Coordinator: EA • Technical Coordinator: EPFL

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STEM Education at School (10-18)Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Technology Online Labs

Pedagogy Inquiry Learning

Online School Labs

Community School Networks

‣ Parsimony as core principle

• Pedagogy: Focus on inquiry learning sessions relying on online labs and preserving teacher’srole, scenarios and modalities

• Technology: Select the most simple existing technology and rely on existing repositories (resources and online labs)

• Communities: Build on existing outreach activities, domain leaders, early adopters, and teacher networks (European Schoolnet)

• Scientific Hubs: Federate existing resourcesin a single portal providing a coherent user experience (CERN, ESA, ...)

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Online School Labs

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Simple enough to trigger adoption

Rich enough to bring added value

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Online School Labs‣ Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILSs)

• A set of online resources supporting an targeted activity

• Information and guidance (wiki)

• Online labs through interfacing apps

• Scaffolding apps

• and structured to enforce inquiry learning phases

• Orientation

• Conceptualisation

• Investigation

• Conclusion

• Discussion

‣ Go-Lab Portal

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Online School Labs

www.Golabz.eu Lab-Owners & Teachers

Share & Search

Labs

Apps

ILSRep

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graasp.epfl.ch Teachers

Create & Adapt

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‣ www.Golabz.eu

• Populated and repurposed by users under

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Go-lab Repository

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Web Apps

‣ Hybrid search and recommendation (under construction)

• Combining Content, Metadata, and Social Traces including tags, ratings, comments, and popularity

‣ Bartering Platform

• Community support from peer teachersand lab owners on a voluntary basis

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Go-lab Repository

‣ Federating resources through Big Ideas

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Go-lab Repository

‣ Graasp.epfl.ch: Populating a space by aggregatingpersonal and shared resources and apps

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Aggregation of Cloudresources with GraaspIt!

Go-Lab Factory

Audience • Public • Closed • Hidden !Roles • Owner • Contributor • Viewer !Entities • Resources • Apps • Activity

Spaces • People

‣ Graasp.epfl.ch: Populating a space by aggregatingpersonal and shared resources and apps

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Go-Lab Factory

• Modify or add content or apps in the various phases

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• Generate the inquiry learning space for your students11

Wiki: Double click to edit it

Pad: Drag-and-drop content or appsfrom the cloud or from the Go-Labrepository

Go-Lab Factory

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• Share it with a secret URL and use it in class

Go-Lab FactoryPrivacyby Design • Metaphor of

the classroom • Controlled by

the teacher • Students log in

with nicknames (no sign up)

• Secret URL as the lab key

• Confinement in inquiry learning spaces

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• Activity tracking only enabled if the virtual agent AngeLA (the guarding Angel for LA) is invited by the teacher in the inquiry learning space ILS

• LA rely on http://activitystrea.ms

• Dashboard apps can be added in the ILS for visualization

• Go-Lab is not about big data, it is about contextual data

• Scaffolding apps rely on LA when available

Learning Analytics

• This work was partially funded by the European Union inthe context of the ROLE (Grant Agreement no. 231396)and Go-Lab projects (Grant Agreement no. 317601) under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the 7th Framework Programme for R&D (FP7)and by the Personal Learning Environment (Phase 3) project of the Swiss AAA/SWITCH Program

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Acknowledgment

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Contact & Links!!

• denis.gillet@epfl.ch

• http://react.epfl.ch !

• http://graasp.epfl.ch

• Tutorial: http://graasp.epfl.ch/#item=asset_3627 !

• http://www.role-project.euhttp://www.role-widgetstore.eu !!

• FP7 • IST • European Unionhttp://www.go-lab-project.eu