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Minocha, Shailey; Tilling, Steve; Argles, Tom; Braithwaite, Nick; Burden, David and Rock, James
(2015).
Abstract
In a six-month long Innovate UK-funded project (November 2015 – April 2016), we investigated the feasibility of creating a sustainable national 3D ‘virtual field-trips’ (VFT) software service, to support and deliver field trip-based education through a virtual channel in schools and higher education institutions (HEIs). The idea of a 3D VFT service emerged from Virtual Skiddaw App, the 3D virtual geology fieldtrip, of The Open University’s (OU) Open Science Laboratory . In the feasibility project, we (at the OU) (co-investigator) along with Daden (project-lead) and Design Thinkers, UK (co-investigator) we looked into the technical, pedagogical, commercial and service design aspects of the 3D VFT service.
In this presentation, we focussed on the pedagogy strand of this feasibility project: pedagogical advantages of 3D VFTs, and the challenges for their adoption in schools and HEIs.
We discussed the following:
pedagogical underpinnings of 3D virtual environments and 3D VFTs in disciplines such as geology, biology, environmental science/studies and geography which are founded on field observations, exploration and enquiry;
potential of integrating VFTs within the curricula in schools and in HEIs;
perceptions of educators, students and assessment bodies towards 3D VFTs, and virtual fieldwork, in general; we used the Virtual Skiddaw App in workshops and presentations to illustrate the concept of a 3D VFT;
views of stakeholders towards the 3D VFT service: advantages, challenges and their requirements from this service.
Our empirical investigations have been user-centred – focussing on the stakeholders and particularly, the end-users such as educators, students and fieldwork specialists, and we have interacted with them via interviews, service design workshops, demonstrations and a survey to elicit their perceptions and requirements.
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Virtual Fieldtrips TSB/Daden - Phase 1 Not Set Innovate UK - Keywords
- 3D virtual field trips; 3D Geology field trip; virtual fieldwork; Virtual Skiddaw; physical field trips; virtual field trips; VFTs; Second Life; 3D virtual worlds; Unity 3D; 3D virtual environments; Innovate UK feasibility study
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences - Research Group
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Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
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- http://oro.open.ac.uk/44881/(Publication)
- http://oro.open.ac.uk/43719/(Publication)
- http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/o...(Research Group)
- https://learn5.open.ac.uk/course/format/...(Research Group)
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- http://www.designthinkersgroup.com/team/(Author Website)
- htttp://www.shaileyminocha.info(Author Website)
- https://uk.linkedin.com/in/steve-tilling...(Author Website)
- http://www.open.ac.uk/people/ta28(Author Website)
- http://www.daden.co.uk/conc/trainingscap...(Research Group)
- http://www.open.ac.uk/about/teaching-and...(Author Website)
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- Shailey Minocha