The Go-Lab Inventory and Integration of Online Labs - Labs Offered by Universities

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This document is the outcome of the work done during the 2nd year of the project in task “T2.2 -Organizing Online Labs for the Go-Lab Federation: from Small to Big Ideas of Science”, in task“T2.3 – The Go-lab Inventory of Online Labs” and Task “T2.4 – Populating the Go-Labinventory”. The document describes (a) the process of populating the Go-Lab Inventory for year2, (b) the main characteristics of the new online labs (including quality, diversity, multilingualism)and (c) explains in detail the steps towards the development of a federated ecosystem of onlinelabs and educational resources (inquiry learning activities that are making use of a lab – or aseries of labs) that could be available to the users (namely science teachers) through aneffective search mechanism. Overall the Go-Lab inventory includes currently 48 online labs(the initial indicator was to have 45 online labs at the end of the project) out of which 13 wereintegrated during the 1st year of the project and 35 during the 2nd year. The consortium hasalready set in place a mechanism to populate the Go-Lab Repository with more online labs fromthe initial planned sample to support the large scale validation work. The consortium hasalready established cooperation with similar efforts across the globe. Following the remarks ofthe reviewers the main concepts of the proposed approach (Big Ideas of Science, online labmetadata model1) were validated with real users (namely, science teachers and teachers’trainers) in the framework of specific workshops and activities. The data were analysed and theresults are presented. About 341 potential users were involved in the validation exercises. Inparticular, 108 users participated in the validation of the metadata elements set for online labsand 233 users were involved in the validation of the Go-Lab set on the “Big Ideas of Science”.