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Welcome to the Twente Go-Lab ecosystem!
Twente Go-Lab is a digital ecosystem that enables teachers to create inquiry learning spaces (ILSs) for STEM subjects. The core of an ILS is a digital lab where students can conduct experiments themselves.
To support students, you can combine a digital lab with multimedia materials (text, video) and apps (small tools) that assist students in the inquiry learning process. For example, there is an app that helps students formulate hypotheses. All these Go-Lab apps can be configured to your own preference.
Twente Go-Lab offers many possibilities. For instance, you can have students collaborate in groups where they share labs and apps, and there is a large number of learning analytics apps available for both students and teachers.
The following video gives an impression of what is possible with (the old) Go-lab. The new Twente Go-lab offers the same (and more) possibilities and a greatly improved interface for the authoring environment:
Go-Lab video
Digital labs
Digital labs come in many forms. Below are the digital labs usable under Twente Go-Lab, arranged by subject area. But in Wikiwijs you can of course also search by age category, school type, etc.
GEOGRAPHY
BIOLOGY
PHYSICS
CHEMISTRY
ASTRONOMY
MATHEMATICS
Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILSs)
Simply giving students a lab usually doesn't work. Students need direction and support in their inquiry learning. That's why you can use the Twente Go-Lab editor to create complete learning environments in which digital labs are combined with multimedia material (text/videos) and apps. Apps (see the next chapter of this explanation) are small tools that help students in the investigative learning process or with which you can, for example, give students a quiz.
The following image shows how students in an ILS can enter hypotheses in the hypothesis scratchpad.
As a second example, the image below shows how students are instructed to perform an investigation
Apps
With the Twente Go-Lab editor you can combine digital labs with multimedia material (text/video) but also with a large number of apps, small tools that help students in the research learning process, for example when setting up an experiment. Below these apps are divided into a number of categories.
As a new ILS designer, it is best to start with the standard research cycle and the associated basic apps. Only then explore other apps. When you create a new ILS, the standard research cycle (not the apps) is automatically filled in.
Most apps can be filled with content and you can often configure certain settings of an app.
If you click on the logo you will see the apps from that category on Wikiwijs.
Basic apps. These allow you to create a basic ILS (Inquiry Learning Space) for the standard inquiry cycle in Go-Lab. These are: Orientation (app: Concept mapper), Conceptualization (app: hypothesis scratchpad), Experimentation (apps: Experiment Design tool, Observation tool, Data Entry tool, Data viewer), and Conclusion (Conclusion tool and Quiz tool).
General apps.
These are apps that can be used effectively in an ILS but are not specifically designed for inquiry-based learning, such as Name the Frame, the Input Field, the Noteboard and a calculator
Domain Specific Apps. A number of apps are specific to a particular domain, such as Geogebra (which allows Geogebra applications to be placed in an ILS), or an app with an Interactive Periodic Table of Elements.
Learning Analytics apps. These are apps that allow you to monitor the behavior of students in an ILS. An example is the Timeline app that shows how students have progressed through the different phases of an ILS over time. For the teacher, these apps show the login names of the students; a student only sees his/her own name, the other names are anonymized.
Collaboration apps. The most important app here is the Collaboration tool. When added to an ILS, students can work on most apps and some labs together, remotely. As a teacher, you can organize students into collaborative groups. Other collaboration apps include a Shared Wiki, a Conference app, and a Chat.
The Twente Go-Lab editor
The Twente Go-Lab editor is an authoring system that allows you to easily create Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILSs). ILSs are a combination of a digital lab with multimedia material (text, videos) and tools (apps) that help students with inquiry-based learning.
You create a new ILS by clicking on the plus sign at the top of the screen after logging in to Twente Go-Lab. Once you have created a new ILS, you can add new phases (chapters) on the left. You can fill these phases with the elements on the right of the screen. Click on an element and it will be placed in the ILS. You can then edit an element, for example, put text in a text block or configure content in an app or the app setting.
You share an ILS with your students by sharing the URL of the 'play' version (4). Make a copy of your ILS if you want to keep the data from different classes separate.
In Twente Go-Lab, everything is saved automatically. So you never have to click 'save'.
You can register for the Twente Go-Lab editor here.
The following video (in Dutch) gives a first short impression of the Twente Go-Lab editor.
The Go-Lab history
The Go-Lab ecosystem was developed in the Go-Lab project (2012-2016) and its successor Next-Lab (2017-2020), both funded by EU programs with the University of Twente (Department of Instructional Technology) as coordinator.
Using the Go-Lab ecosystem, teachers can find Labs and Apps and create custom Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILSs). In collaboration with multiple partners, experts and external online lab providers, the Go-Lab ecosystem had the largest collection of Labs (virtual labs, external labs and datasets), a large set of pedagogically designed apps and more than a thousand ILSs created by teachers and experts (see www.golabz.eu). The Go-Lab team has organized hundreds of training events across Europe and Africa, reaching thousands of teachers, educators and leaders of educational institutions.
As of the end of 2023, the original Go-Lab system will no longer be supported. The website www.golabz.eu, part of which is now no longer functioning, gives an impression of the old Go-Lab system and everything that has been developed around it. The new version (Twente Go-Lab) now available on Wikiwijs was created by the Instructional Technology section of the University of Twente. Many of the original labs and some ILSs can also be found on Wikiwijs (search for Go-Lab).
For more information about Go-Lab, please contact the development team at go-lab@utwente.nl.
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