From a technical point of view, SCY provides a learning environment, in the sense that students log in and perform learning activities. The environment is called SCY-Lab, and it contains all sorts of tools that students may use to create results that we call Emerging Learning Objects (ELOs). An ELO can be anything from a list of ideas, meeting notes or a complete report to a dataset, a planning, a design sketch or a comment on somebody else's ELO.
In SCY, subject matter is presented to students in so-called missions. In a mission, students work towards solving a general challenge, and they learn by performing activities and producing ELOs that are relevant in the process of solving the challenge.
In the SCY project, we have developed the following complete missions:
- Run for your life! (introductory mini mission) - about dissemination, sports and energy
- Design a CO2-friendly house - about energy, CO2 and sustainability
- ECO mission - about ecology
- A healthy pizza - about nutrition and health
- Forensic mission - about DNA and crime science