The course’s main objective is to introduce to teachers the use of online virtual experimentations and remote laboratories as well as inquiry-based science teaching techniques in order to help them upgrade their current teaching practices. These tools and techniques will facilitate them in engaging  their students  into science topics, in order to acquire scientific inquiry skills and experience the culture of doing science, under motivating circumstances, by undertaking active, guided, experimentation, carried out on both  basic and top-level scientific facilities.

The course will also strengthen its social cohesive and pan-European dimension by inviting participants to be part of a community of practice that will allow them to exchange ideas and materials with fellow teachers across Europe and introduce them to social tagging, educational metadata and on-line learning repositories. The repertoire of online labs and experimentations, and the social tools that will be presented in combination with the hands-on activities will facilitate the participants in learning how to deploy the vast collection of existing eLearning tools and educational resources and also how to integrate their own work into educational repositories and share it within a European community of practice.

30/07/2013 - 04/08/2013, Volos, Greece

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