Innovations in STEM education: the Go-Lab federation of online labs

Smart Learning Environments

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  de Jong, Ton ^a   Sotiriou, Sofoklis ^b   Gillet, Denis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Ellinogermaniki Agogi   (Greece)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Classroom activities; Inquiry learning; Online laboratories; Open social applications

Indexed keywords

EID: 85098806525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21967091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40561-014-0003-6     Document Type: Article

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