発表

PeTeL is Israel’s new all-in-one platform for the country’s high-school science teachers and students, featuring an integration between a LMS ,an OER (Open educational resources) catalog and a Social network for teachers.

Although a LMS course, empty of content, is available for every high-school science class in Israel, the vast majority of teachers have consistently refrain from using it, mainly due to lack of time and motivation needed to self learn Moodle’s wide range of content creating possibilities . PeTeL is challenging this basic assumption by providing teachers with a (1) simple to use platform with a designated set of science teaching tools, (2) an ability to initiate a course from a high quality OER catalog of interactive content and (3) to seek inspiration from the community of teachers and academic professionals through a social network for professional development.

We believe that PeTeL can be an example for a nationwide implementation and development model for other countries.

A nationwide implementation program has started 3 years ago, with the assembly of a group of leading teachers,  technological experts and scientists from the Department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute. The following year, the leading team initiated a professional learning community of early adopting teachers, in order to design and enact the implementation of the digital environment while collecting data from teachers and students.  This year, PeTeL has been disseminated in more than 100 school across Israel thanks to the early adopting teachers who mentor joining teachers in effectively using the platform.

PeTeL’s vision is to scale nationwide to all high-school science classes in Israel as a day-to-day tool used by Israel’s teachers for personalizing their students’ learning.