Alexandra Okada, Wednesday 17 October 2012
The kickoff meeting of the weSPOT project took place in Heerlen, Netherlands. Funded by the European Commission, 9 partner institutions will collaborate throughout the next 3 years to provide a Working Environment with Social, Personal, and Open Technologies for Inquiry-Based Learning across European higher academic institutions and schools.
The weSPOT environment will support users (from 12 to 25) in developing their inquiry-based learning skills through smart support tools for orchestrating inquiry workflows, including mobile apps, learning analytics, and social collaboration.
KMi – represented by Ale Okada, Alex Mikroyannidis, and Peter Scott – will be responsible for Personal and Social Inquiry Workflows as well as two pilots related to Biodiversity and Food.
weSPOT is addressing the key issue of innovating inquiry-based learning by integrating social, personal, and open technologies to connect informal and formal learning experiences. During the project, a reference model for inquiry skills and a diagnostic instrument will be developed to measure individual performance in the defined inquiry skills.
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