Conclusion
The Go-Lab project is currently in the second year of its four year span. It has
now laid the conceptual and technical basis for a federation of online labs, as
discussed in this paper, and now goes on to a phase in which its facilities will be
further tested, refined, and extended. A second major development will be the population
of the portal and the creation of a large user community around the online
labs. The facilities that Go-Lab offers for creating and sharing full learning
environments around online labs should be one of the major “selling points” to attract
lab-owners and teachers.
In this endeavor, it will be important to support teachers in the use of Go-Lab.
Our experience with teachers until now has been that from a technical point of
view, the way the Go-Lab authoring system is set up does not present them with
major obstacles; teachers can very quickly create their first ILSs. This means that
the main challenge will lie in informing teachers on how to create well-designed
inquiry environments. Moving away from strictly guided procedural approaches
when learning in labs or practical sessions will require a major shift in thinking.
We hope that providing teachers with good examples of ILSs and default ILSs will
be a source of inspiration.
The emphasis in our work on online laboratories doesn’t mean that there is no room
in the curriculum for other forms of instruction, such as physical laboratories, selfstudy,
lectures, and so forth. All these forms of learning and instruction have their own
specific advantages that should be part of a balanced curriculum, and often intelligent
combinations, such as using virtual and physical labs together (see e.g., Jaakkola and
Nurmi, 2008) offer specific advantages. Online labs can play a valuable role in this
whole spectrum of instructional opportunities, and the intention is that the Go-Lab
portal will contribute to realizing this role.
ConclusionThe Go-Lab project is currently in the second year of its four year span. It hasnow laid the conceptual and technical basis for a federation of online labs, asdiscussed in this paper, and now goes on to a phase in which its facilities will befurther tested, refined, and extended. A second major development will be the populationof the portal and the creation of a large user community around the onlinelabs. The facilities that Go-Lab offers for creating and sharing full learningenvironments around online labs should be one of the major “selling points” to attractlab-owners and teachers.In this endeavor, it will be important to support teachers in the use of Go-Lab.Our experience with teachers until now has been that from a technical point ofview, the way the Go-Lab authoring system is set up does not present them withmajor obstacles; teachers can very quickly create their first ILSs. This means thatthe main challenge will lie in informing teachers on how to create well-designedinquiry environments. Moving away from strictly guided procedural approacheswhen learning in labs or practical sessions will require a major shift in thinking.We hope that providing teachers with good examples of ILSs and default ILSs willbe a source of inspiration.The emphasis in our work on online laboratories doesn’t mean that there is no roomin the curriculum for other forms of instruction, such as physical laboratories, selfstudy,lectures, and so forth. All these forms of learning and instruction have their own
specific advantages that should be part of a balanced curriculum, and often intelligent
combinations, such as using virtual and physical labs together (see e.g., Jaakkola and
Nurmi, 2008) offer specific advantages. Online labs can play a valuable role in this
whole spectrum of instructional opportunities, and the intention is that the Go-Lab
portal will contribute to realizing this role.
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