STEM Teachers' Community Building Through a Social Tutoring Platform

摘要

Teachers' knowledge and skills have a great impact on students' learning outcomes. Teachers' vocational training has been a research topic in technology-enhanced learning for years. The Go-Lab project aims to engage school students with STEM topics by bringing online laboratory experiments based on inquiry learning approach into the classroom. In Go-Lab, teachers' knowledge and skills in inquiry learning with online labs are important. Thus, we have launched the Go-Lab Tutoring Platform, a social tutoring platform for teachers' expertise sharing and community building through virtual tutoring sessions. In this paper, we present the first rollout results of the tutoring platform based on five teachers' training events. We explore the practical activities for efficient knowledge sharing between teachers and pedagogical experts, in order to build up teachers' community.