Personalised Learning Spaces and Federated Online Labs for STEM Education at School

Denis Gillet (1) , Ton de Jong (2) , Sofoklis Sotiriou (3) , Christophe Salzmann (1)

1 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2 TRESE - Twente Research and Education on Software Engineering
3 Ellinogermaniki Agogi

The European Commission is funding a large-scale research project on federated online laboratories (Labs) for education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at School. The main educational focus is on inquiry learning and the main technological one is on personalized learning spaces. The learning spaces are offered through a single European social media portal supporting simultaneously teacher communities and student learning activities. This paper presents the general technical framework devised to support the construction and the exploitation of learning spaces, as well as the federation of online labs.

Keywords: Online Labs; Remote Labs; Virtual Labs; Inquiry Learning; Learning Spaces; Personalization; Federated Repositories; Teacher Communities; Social Media; Communities of Practice

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Education

Denis Gillet, Ton de Jong, Sofoklis Sotiriou, Christophe Salzmann. Personalised Learning Spaces and Federated Online Labs for STEM Education at School: Supporting Teacher Communities and Inquiry Learning. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Mar 2013, Berlin, Germany. ⟨hal-00990317⟩