Tutoring Teachers - Building an Online Tutoring Platform for the Teacher Community

International audienceKnowledge sharing has been a trendy and recurring topic intechnology-enhanced learning for years. Many advanced platforms havebeen developed. However face-to-face help session are still often preferredby people who want to enhance their skills. The Go-Lab project aims toengage school students with STEM topics by bringing online laboratoryexperiments into the classroom. To achieve this, teachers are the keyto success. Accordingly, the teacher’s knowledge and skills in inquirylearning with online labs are important, since it may be a hurdle forteachers to use such technical software and apply it in their lessons. Tosupport and tutor teachers with this, we have developed the Go-LabTutoring Platform that offers teachers a peer assistance and expertisesharing platform. Teachers, lab owners, and pedagogical experts can helpeach other and share their skills and knowledge. To sustain this tutoringplatform, we aim to set up a business model to support the communitybuild-up in a sustainable way. This paper elaborates on the design, thefirst prototype and an early evaluation of the Go-Lab Tutoring Platform