Orchestrating Inquiry-Based Learning Spaces: an Analysis of Teacher Needs

Maria Jesús Rodríguez-Triana (1) , Adrian Holzer (1) , Andrii Voznuik (1) , Denis Gillet (1)

1 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

The European Go-Lab project offers Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILSs) as open educational resources to support Inquiry-based Learning (IBL). To successfully exploit ILSs and implement IBL, proper support for orchestration is needed. Researchers have highlighted the complexity of orchestrating Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) scenarios and the need for supporting participants in this endeavour. In this paper, we address this issue by analyzing the teacher needs when orchestrating IBL and relying on ILSs. Concretely, we have carried out a survey-based study with 23 expert teachers in IBL and four in-depth case studies in authentic classroom scenarios with 2 teachers. The results lead us to a set of needs to be covered regarding the design of the ILS, the learning process and the learning outcomes.

Keywords: Orchestration; Inquiry-Based Learning; Teachers

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Education

Maria Jesús Rodríguez-Triana, Adrian Holzer, Andrii Voznuik, Denis Gillet. Orchestrating Inquiry-Based Learning Spaces: an Analysis of Teacher Needs. 14th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2015), Nov 2015, Guangzhou, China. ⟨hal-01206717⟩