weSPOT: A personal and social approach to inquiry-based learning

Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Okada, Alexandra; Scott, Peter; Rusman, Ellen; Specht, Marcus; Stefanov, Krassen; Boytchev, Pavel; Protopsaltis, Aristidis; Held, Paul; Hetzner, Sonia; Kikis-Papadakis, Kathy and Chaimala, Foteini (2013). weSPOT: A personal and social approach to inquiry-based learning. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 19(14) pp. 2093–2111.

URL: http://www.jucs.org/jucs_19_14/wespot_a_personal_a...

Abstract

weSPOT is a new European initiative proposing a novel approach for personal and social inquiry-based learning in secondary and higher education. weSPOT aims at enabling students to create their mash-ups out of cloud based tools and services in order to perform scientific investigations. Students will also be able to share their inquiry accomplishments in social networks and receive feedback from the learning environment and their peers. This paper presents the research framework of the weSPOT project, as well as the initial inquiry-based learning scenarios that will be piloted by the project in real-life educational settings.

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• Item ORO ID
• 39263
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 0948-6968
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Working Environment with Social, Personal and Open Technologies for Inquiry Based Learning (weSPOT)	318499	European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), contract number FP7-ICT-2011

• Extra Information
• Special Issue on Cloud Education Environments
• Keywords
• social learning; scientific inquiry; personal learning environment; cloud learning environment; inquiry-based learning
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport > Education
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
• Research Group
• Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
  Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
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• © 2013 J.UCS
• Depositing User
• Kay Dave