The University of Cyprus is a public University with approximately 4,000 undergraduate and 1,000 master and PhD students. The Department of Educational Sciences with 22 members of the faculty and 35 associate or assistant personnel members offers two undergraduate programs, a pre-service post-graduate secondary education program and seven postgraduate programs at the Masters and PhD level. UCY is active in research in the fields of inquiry learning, computer supported collaborative learning, physical and virtual laboratory experimentation, modeling, science curriculum development and assessment, conceptual understanding and educational evaluation.

The Learning in Science Group conducts a coordinated program of research, curriculum development and instruction and is currently engaged in three major projects: preparation of future teachers to teach science and technology by using inquiry-based science teaching methods; development of computer supported inquiry learning environments; integration of virtual and physical laboratory experimentation in physics learning environments. The Learning in Science Group has conducted research and developed technology based learning environments that entail key characteristics of the Go-Lab system and of the tasks that the department will have in Go-Lab:  inquiry  learning  (SCY, STOCHASMOS,  SHEDIA,  CoReflect),  remote  laboratories  (Virtual  Labs,  ITforUS),  information technology and learning science (ITforUS, ICT for IST), science curriculum development (Material Science, BIOPEDIA), and modeling (DEMIOURGIA, SYNERGASIA). 

In Go-Lab, the Learning in Science Group is involved in WP1 (Pedagogical framework), WP3 (Participatory design), and WP8 (Validation and Evaluation). UCY will act as National Coordinator of the project implementation in Cyprus.

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