TY  - CONF
AU  - Kordaki, M.
AU  - Bizoi, M.
AU  - Gorghiu, G.
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Teachers' computer supported constructions within a European virtual community collaborative space for sciences education: An experience achieved in a multinational European project
T3  - 2nd International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2010
SP  - 349
EP  - 356
VL  - 2
KW  - Blended learning
KW  - Collaborative spaces
KW  - Computer supported education
KW  - Essential considerations
KW  - European Countries
KW  - European project
KW  - Experiments
KW  - Finland
KW  - Information and Communication Technologies
KW  - Lesson plans
KW  - Online training
KW  - Personnel training
KW  - Planning
KW  - Romania
KW  - Science education
KW  - Teacher training
KW  - Teaching
KW  - Teaching and learning
KW  - Virtual community
KW  - Virtual experiments
KW  - Virtual reality
N2  - This paper presents some essential considerations referred to the constructions performed by European teachers in terms of virtual experiments and lesson plans within the framework of a Virtual community collaborative Space for Sciences education. This framework was set up in the context of the Socrates Comenius 2.1 European project: "VccSSe – Virtual Community Collaborating Space for Science Education". In this project, teachers from five European countries (Romania, Poland, Finland, Spain and Greece) participated in blended learning courses aiming their training for the use of Information and Communication Technologies in real teaching and learning practices. Within this framework, on-line training materials and virtual experiments were created and developed. After the end of the designed courses, teachers were asked to form their own virtual experiments and lesson plans and then to implement their products in the classrooms. The analysis of the data shows that teachers who participated in the VccSSe Project encouraged by the aforementioned blended course, expressed a favourable feedback related to the implementation of their own virtual experiments in the teaching activities.
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