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DojoIBL: Online Inquiry-based Learning
DojoIBL is a web based platform to support collaborative inquirybased
learning processes. It imitates real-world research processes and organizes
inquiry activities into several phases. DojoIBL considers lessons learned from the
weSPOT project and offers a cloud-based highly scalable infrastructure that has a
strong focus on (mobile) data collection. In this sense, DojoIBL blends formal
(desk-top based) learning and informal (mobile) learning. Within the course of 1
year, a design based research methodology was implemented in 10 national and
international inquiry projects. Within this period, students were inter-viewed at
regular times. Time and task management issues turned out to be critical functionalities
and were thus implemented in several iterations