MINT-Digital-Labs

• Duration: 2023 – 2026
• Project lead: Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter

Project management: Prof. Dr. Andreas Breiter

Funding institution: BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Project duration: 2023-2026

Collaborative project for the utilization of STEM student laboratories for teacher training

Student laboratories have proven to be enormously beneficial for motivation, especially interest, in the sense of subject-related motivation, in STEM topics and working methods. In addition, they were able to meet the challenges of digital transformation faster and more productively than formal educational institutions. The potential to use student labs as innovative places for teacher training and to develop digitalization-related skills among teachers has not yet been fully exploited. In the joint project, the labs are to be expanded into “LFB-Labs-digital” and the question of implementation requirements for successful further training in the digital world in the STEM sector is to be addressed.

The teutolabs student labs (mathematics, robotics, biology, chemistry, physics, biotechnology) and the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Paderborn with the coolMINT student lab are involved in the project network. The good practice examples evaluated in the student labs are accompanied by the interdisciplinary adaptive quality management for teacher training and form the basis for the “LFB-Labs-digital reference framework”. This will be developed by an implementation advisory board with proven experts, whereby attention will be paid to the triangulation of results from accompanying research, the parallel studies on evidence-based teacher training in the digital world and the model quality handbook for teacher training. The digital infrastructure for the LFB Labs Digital event formats is being expanded to accompany the process.

ifib is responsible for analyzing, designing and further developing the digital infrastructure of the student labs to promote learning. With the help of the digital infrastructure, local teachers are to be shown opportunities to enrich their lessons with a wide variety of digital tools and thus pass on their enthusiasm for the subjects to their students.

Bielefeld University is responsible for coordinating the network.