The training course methodology aims at the integration of theory and practice. More precisely, participants will get the theoretical knowledge and also the practical aspect by having the opportunity to put into practice what has been learnt in the course. Throughout the duration of the course teachers will experience inquiry strategies in three different modes:

a) as learners participating in inquiry-based learning;

b) as teachers implementing inquiry-based strategies in their classes; 

c) as researchers collecting, examining and interpreting data about their practice and their students’ learning.

The course will include presentations and practical sessions (workshops) on web-based educational uses for teachers; introduction to the concepts and skills of learning-design; introduction to the concept of inquiry-based learning; introduction to learning repositories; introduction to preparing, uploading and sharing learning resources; the characterisation of learning objects with educational metadata, presentation of popular social tools and inquiry-based learning scenarios for use in the classroom; inquiry-based strategies for and best practices of using digital teaching & learning resources in the classroom; and hands-on sessions working on resources making use of the Open Discovery Space [www.opendiscoveryspace.eu], OSR [www.osrportal.eu] portals depending on participants’ interests. Participants will have the opportunity to work alone or jointly in small teams enabling them to learn from each other.
The training course comprises 7 hours of presentations and demonstrations and 18 hours of hands-on workshops. The presentations and the demonstrations of the training course will be held in an auditorium equipped with a data projector and a laptop, whereas, the workshops will be held in a multimedia laboratory where each participant will have direct access to a PC and will carry out planned exercises.