Project process

The main project activities are the definition of pedagogical requirements, development of Co-Lab and its components, and evaluation studies. From the start of the project, prospective users (learners and developers) of Co-Lab are involved. Formative evaluation studies will be performed in order to evaluate the use of Co-Lab applications and to generate requirements for new versions. Learners will participate in studies using prototypes and mock-ups of the Co-Lab environment. Aspects that will be investigated concentrate on the learning process (e.g., the ease of use of the modelling language, the structure of the collaboration, the interface to experiments).

Towards the end of the project more summative evaluations will take place that next to investigating the learning process will also concentrate on the learning product (the knowledge that results).