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Identifying potential types of guidance for supporting student inquiry when using virtual and remote labs in science: a literature review

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The aim of this review is to identify specific types of guidance for supporting student use of online labs, that is, virtual and remote labs, in an inquiry context. To do so, we reviewed the literature on providing guidance within computer supported inquiry learning (CoSIL) environments in science education and classified all identified guidance according to a recent taxonomy of types of guidance. In addition, we classified the types of guidance in phases of inquiry. Moreover, we examined whether the types of guidance identified for each inquiry phase were found to be effective in promoting student learning, as documented in the CoSIL research. This review identifies what types of effective guidance currently exist and can be applied in develo** future CoSIL environments, especially CoSIL environments with online labs. It also highlights the needs/shortcomings of these available types of guidance. Such information is crucial for the design and development of future CoSIL environments with online labs.

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This study was conducted in the context of the research project Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School (Go-Lab), which is funded by the European Community under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the 7th Framework Programme for R&D (Grant Agreement No.: 317601).

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    Zacharias C. Zacharia, Constantinos Manoli & Nikoletta Xenofontos

  2. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Ton de Jong, Siswa A. N. van Riesen & Ellen T. Kamp

  3. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Margus Pedaste, Mario Mäeots & Leo Siiman

  4. Ellinogermaniki Agogi Scholi Panagea Savva, Pallini, Greece

    Eleftheria Tsourlidaki

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Zacharia, Z.C., Manoli, C., Xenofontos, N. et al. Identifying potential types of guidance for supporting student inquiry when using virtual and remote labs in science: a literature review. Education Tech Research Dev 63, 257–302 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-015-9370-0

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