How effective is remote instruction for astrophysics?

Brodeur, Marcus; Kolb, Ulrich; Minocha, Shailey and Braithwaite, Nicolas (2014). How effective is remote instruction for astrophysics? In: Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, 45 pp. 133–134.

URL: http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/571/57132995041.pdf

Abstract

While the value of robotic telescopes in research is hardly contested, it is often assumed that effective astronomy teaching requires hands-on experience with a physical instrument. We examined the impact of student perceptions of remote instruction technologies in undergraduate astronomy projects at The Open University, UK. Key contrasts in attitudes and outcomes exist between more and less advanced cohorts, but our findings indicate that students value virtual telescopes as effective training for live instrument control and that remote observation can be coordinated effectively among multiple simultaneous non-colocated users.

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• Item ORO ID
• 41891
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• ISSN
• 0185-1101
• Keywords
• astronomy; astrophysics; education; science education; remote instruction; telescopes; robotic telescopes; remote experiments; virtual experiments; online experiments
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Physical Sciences
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
• Research Group
• Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
  Physics
• Copyright Holders
• © 2014 The Authors
• Depositing User
• Marcus Brodeur