. Project based education “Energy and its transformation” via Integrated e-Learning
Modern teaching approaches paying attention to real world problems and emphasizing the pupil's own
exploratory quest for knowledge surely include project based teaching. From a historical perspective, it cannot be
regarded as a novelty.
Although project based education is a proven form of teaching, the latest Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) enables us to make the process more interesting, funny and more interactive for both pupils and
teachers. We have in mind the hitherto practically unused real remote experiments via the Internet as well as the use
of virtual experiments through interactive simulations - applets, known as haslets.
Schauer et al. (2009) and Ožvoldová (2006), define Integrated e Learning (INTe-L) as a new education strategy,
which was developed with the intention to introduce ICT and experimenting into teaching process more extensively.
It is based on the methods the sciences used for the cognition of the real world, – such as exploration, discovery,
data collection, their processing and evaluation, comparison with the models, all with the support and the wide use
of the latest ICT. The cornerstone of INTe-L strategy (Fig. 1) is experiment: a) computer aided laboratory
experiment (so called hands on), as well as a real remote experiment on the Internet, b) interactive simulations as
virtual experiments mediated via the Internet, and c) electronic teaching materials (Ožvoldová 2006, Schauer e