Presentation of the 4-yeal long work on developing Go-Lab teachers communities. More than 6000 teachers from 1000 EU schools were involved. Here is the impact our work in the framework of this project.

1. © Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-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

2. 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

3. Teachers
Trained
1660
Schools
1047 Registered
Users
6517
Authors
3877
Inquiry
Learning
Spaces
Implemented
768
Implemented
44% in
school hours
x2.8 times
School
‘Students’
21504
access users
40000 actual
students

4. 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

5. 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: 558 events (26.964 participants)

6. Go-Lab faces and numbers
How to build a sustainable community
Engagement Activities
© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)

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

8. Go-Lab community on social media
© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)
Sum
per year
Total: 3.668
followers, group members,
newsletter recipients

9. Go-Lab faces and numbers
Support Activities
© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)

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

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

13. © Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)
Go-Lab faces and numbers
Community - Contest

14. © Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)
Go-Lab faces and numbers
Community – Summer Schools

15. Go-Lab faces and numbers
Live Community – from explorer to ambassador
© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)
User
Ambassador
Developer
Explorer

16. 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 settings
AND

17. …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

18. Reports and consolidated graphs
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Registered per Author
StandaloneUsers per Author
Authors per ILS
Students per teacher (author)
Registered Users per Author
Authors per ILS

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Number of ILSs versus how many times were used in classroom settings of
at least 10 PCs which correspond to about 20 actual students

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ILS usage

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Average Time (minutes)
ILS usage
overall
in-school
Power (overall)
Power (in-school)

25. Lessons Learnt:
Mainstreaming Go-Lab Results
&
Recommendations for the introduction of on-
line labs in schools

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

27. Scientific publications
© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)
31 publications (Year 4)
90 publications (total)

28. 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
© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)

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

30. Go-Lab Teachers Academy:
An Exploitation Plan for the Go-Lab
Community

31. 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.

32. Supporting Teachers to use On-line Labs in the
classroom
Recipe of a successful community
© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)
Visionary Workshops Face-2-face training Online Support
Certification and
Accreditation
Teacher communities
Practice Reflection /
Summative Workshops
Online – MOOCs ,
webinars
Demo activities in
schools
Contests Teacher Mailing list
Pilot Days
International / National
Schools
Teacher’s Helpdesk Digital Badges Pilot’s Cascade
Online
Support
Best Practices
International Teacher’s
Gathering Events

33. Explorer User Developer Pilot Ambassador
Using the
Go-Lab
environment
Get acquainted
with Go-Lab portal
and the ILS model
Explore and adopt
some ILS
Create their own ILS
Implement ILS with
their students
Train 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
experience
New 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

34. Effectiveness of the support
mechanism
© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)
Ref to Go-Lab
registered users
(100%)

35. Implementation in educational settings
© Go-Lab Project - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
Co-funded by EU (7th Framework Programme)
Ref to Go-Lab registered
users (100%)

36. 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.

37. 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.

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

39. Thank you