Sharing of Open Science Education Resources and Educational Practices in Europe

Science Education is recognised as top priority for European policy makers (Rocard et al. 2007). During the last few years, technological advancements (such as ubiquitous devices and wearable computers) and innovative applications (such as data analysis tools, simulations, augmented reality and virtual reality interfaces) have allowed the enhancement and enrichment of the current science education curricula (Rocard et al. 2007). Furthermore, a large amount of digital science education resources have become available worldwide through science museum collections and digital repositories such as Exploratorium Museum of Science (www.exploratorium.edu/), Science Museum of Minnesota (www.smm.org/) and NASA’s Education Materials Finder (http://search.nasa.gov/search/edFilterSearch.jsp?empty=true), all of which aim to facilitate sharing and re-use of digital science education resources among science education communities. These resources have the potential to support technology-enhanced science education by enabling science teachers to improve their day-to-day science teaching (Rajashekar et al. 2007).

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