Paper Info
Title
An investigation with European science teachers on how to characterize Remote and Virtual Labs
Abstract
Taking into account the plethora of Remote and Virtual Labs (RVLs) that are currently available online, a key problem has emerged from the need of science teachers to be able to find and select them for their lesson plans, in an efficient and effective way. The most common way to facilitate this process using web technologies is to (a) characterize RVLs with appropriately selected educational metadata and (b) to build a web repository that collects the metadata descriptions of RVLs following a common metadata schema and offers search and retrieve facilities. In our previous works we have proposed: (a) a metadata schema for describing RVLs and (b) a web-based repository that stores RVLs based on the proposed metadata schema. In this work, we present the results of an investigation with 93 European school science teachers that was performed in the framework of a major European Initiative namely, the Go-Lab Project. The aim of the study is to identify which metadata elements are considered important by science teachers when they are searching for RVLs that will support their daily teaching activities within the context of their lesson planning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096059
"EDUCON
Keywords
Field
DocType
distance learning,decision support systems,meta data,teaching,internet,engineering education
Metadata,World Wide Web,Virtual lab,Computer science,Decision support system,Distance education,Knowledge management,Engineering education,Educational metadata,Metadata schema,Multimedia,The Internet
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2165-9567
1
0.36
References 
Authors
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eleftheria Tsourlidaki1212.48
Panagiotis Zervas29919.96
Sofoklis Sotiriou311114.57
Demetrios G. Sampson41310247.68