The Go-Lab Initiative team worked closely with Ministries of Education and Teacher Training Institutes across Europe (and beyond) to promote Go-Lab (pre- and in-service) teacher training, the use of the Go-Lab ecosystem in STEM education and the creation of digital learning resources and lessons. Go-Lab was used in around 50 countries across Europe as well as at least 30 countries globally and could be easily adapted and localized to fit national and regional curricula.
Go-Lab has been integrated into several teacher training and professional development programmes and projects to promote Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE), collaborative and self-regulated learning, and improve teachers’ ICT skills to develop their own digital lessons using the Go-Lab ecosystem. Following are some cooperation examples established with Ministries of Education and Teacher Training Institutions in the scope of the Next-Lab project, as well as other Go-Lab affiliated projects.
Basque Government, Spain
Go-Lab courses were officially supported and recognized by the Deparment of Education in the Basque government, where teachers receive a professional development certificate which they can use to advance in their career.
Estonia
The Institute of Education at the University of Tartu integrated Go-Lab into a number of teacher education courses, including Inquiry Learning, Teaching and Reflection, and Collaborative Learning. Furthermore, the Ministry of Education in Estonia updated its digitally based national science assessment to better reflect the evaluation of scientific inquiry skills. The update was driven by the Go-Lab inquiry-based learning framework.
France
The Institut Français de l'Éducation at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon, France) included Go-Lab courses for their pre-service teachers as part of their training programmes.
Georgia
The Ministries of Education in Georgia supported the dissemination of Go-Lab to their schools, promoted Go-Lab teacher training and the creation of Go-Lab digital lessons.
Lithuania
In Lithuania, Go-Lab ambassadors collaborated with the education departments, teacher training institutes and universities to promote Go-Lab in broadcasts and local networks.
Malta
The Ministry of Education in Malta included Go-Lab’s labs and digital lessons in their digital books and learning resources.
The Netherlands
ELAN, the Department of Teacher Development at the University of Twente and in cooperation with the Department of Instructional Technology integrated Go-Lab in two courses related to Physics and Chemistry Pedagogy in the Master program of the pre-service teacher training curriculum at the university.
Ukraine
In scope of the capacity-building project MoPED the curricula of Pedagogical Schools in Ukraine were improved by providing new courses and innovative ICT teaching tools and inquiry methods, with Go-Lab being one of the used ecosystems.
