Tutoring Teachers - Building an Online Tutoring Platform for the Teacher Community
Abstract
Knowledge sharing has been a trendy and recurring topic in
technology-enhanced learning for years. Many advanced platforms have
been developed. However face-to-face help session are still often preferred
by people who want to enhance their skills. The Go-Lab project aims to
engage school students with STEM topics by bringing online laboratory
experiments into the classroom. To achieve this, teachers are the key
to success. Accordingly, the teacher’s knowledge and skills in inquiry
learning with online labs are important, since it may be a hurdle for
teachers to use such technical software and apply it in their lessons. To
support and tutor teachers with this, we have developed the Go-Lab
Tutoring Platform that offers teachers a peer assistance and expertise
sharing platform. Teachers, lab owners, and pedagogical experts can help
each other and share their skills and knowledge. To sustain this tutoring
platform, we aim to set up a business model to support the community
build-up in a sustainable way. This paper elaborates on the design, the
first prototype and an early evaluation of the Go-Lab Tutoring Platform.
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