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weSPOT is a research project funded by the European Commission to develop an open social platform for inquiry-based learning. The platform allows learners to collaboratively aggregate and work with learning resources from the Open University and external sources like Wikipedia and YouTube. Students can interact with customizable inquiry tools or widgets tailored for tasks like data collection, analysis, and hypothesis forming to support inquiry-based learning.
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