TY - GEN
T1 - Authentic science inquiry learning at scale enabled by an interactive biology cloud experimentation lab
AU - Hossain, Zahid
AU - Bumbacher, Engin
AU - Blikstein, Paulo
AU - Riedel-Kruse, Ingmar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/4/12
Y1 - 2017/4/12
N2 - National guidelines advocate for a more sophisticated STEM education that integrates complex and authentic scientific practices, e.g., experimentation, data collection, data analysis, and modeling. How to achieve that is currently unclear for both presential and distance education. We recently developed a scalable cloud lab that enables many online users to perform phototaxis experiment with real, living Euglena cells (opposed to just simulations). Here we iteratively designed and deployed an open course on the edX platform including suitable user interfaces that facilitates inquiry-based learning on this cloud lab: Online students (>300) run real experiments (>2,300), performed data analysis, explored models, and even formulated and experimentally tested their own hypotheses. Platform and course content are now suited for global adaptation in formal K-16 education. We will demo our cloud lab at the conference.
AB - National guidelines advocate for a more sophisticated STEM education that integrates complex and authentic scientific practices, e.g., experimentation, data collection, data analysis, and modeling. How to achieve that is currently unclear for both presential and distance education. We recently developed a scalable cloud lab that enables many online users to perform phototaxis experiment with real, living Euglena cells (opposed to just simulations). Here we iteratively designed and deployed an open course on the edX platform including suitable user interfaces that facilitates inquiry-based learning on this cloud lab: Online students (>300) run real experiments (>2,300), performed data analysis, explored models, and even formulated and experimentally tested their own hypotheses. Platform and course content are now suited for global adaptation in formal K-16 education. We will demo our cloud lab at the conference.
KW - Biology
KW - Cloud lab
KW - Data analysis
KW - EdX
KW - Education
KW - Euglena
KW - Inquiry-based learning
KW - Interactive biotechnology
KW - Learning analytics
KW - Life science
KW - MOOC
KW - Modeling
KW - Phototaxis
KW - Remote experimentation
KW - User interface
KW - User studies
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U2 - 10.1145/3051457.3053994
DO - 10.1145/3051457.3053994
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85018414001
T3 - L@S 2017 - Proceedings of the 4th (2017) ACM Conference on Learning at Scale
SP - 237
EP - 240
BT - L@S 2017 - Proceedings of the 4th (2017) ACM Conference on Learning at Scale
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 4th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L@S 2017
Y2 - 20 April 2017 through 21 April 2017
ER -