Abstract. Nowadays, the knowledge economy is growing rapidly. To sustain future growth, more well educated people in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are needed. In the Go-Lab project we aim to motivate and orient students from an early age on to study STEM fields in their future educational path by applying inquiry learning using online labs. This paper presents an inquiry learning portal where teachers can discover, use and enhance online labs appropriate for their courses and students can acquire scientific methodology skills while doing experiments using the labs. The Go-Lab portal architecture is presented, which contains a repository of online labs, inquiry learning spaces and complementary services. The paper discusses a first version of the portal and our future plans.

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We present a method for designing courseware on algorithms for active learning with virtual board games. Our goal is to build algorithm courseware that integrates explanation with animation and makes the student an active participant. We give hints for structuring the material into sections and mixing presentation with exercises. We present our ideas for a new form of visual interactive exercise and a cardboard game prototype with which we tested our ideas.