Virtual excursion in secondary education

Majherova, Janka; Palasthy, Hedviga; Gazdikova, Viola

doi:10.1109/iceta.2014.7107602

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“…This type of connection is commonly referred to as a virtual field trip (VFT). VFTs are a great solution for student cohorts to visit places that might not otherwise be possible due to location, time, cost or risk associated with a physical field trip (PFT) (Majherová et al, 2014;Placing and Fernandez, 2002;Spaulding and Ranney, 2008). For example, students in Alaska can connect to marine biologists on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia or Australian students can interact with experts at the Johnson Space Center in America.…”

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“…The solution may be to offer a blended approach; where VFT could be used as a precursor for PFTs or alternatively, used as a revision tool post PFT (Spaulding and Ranney, 2008;Spicer and Stratford, 2001). This blended method has been adopted in classrooms before where enhanced knowledge was shown by students who participated in this combined learning experience (VFTs and PFTs) compared to students who only participated in a learning experience with just a PFT or a VFT (Majherová et al, 2014). A specific example of this blended approach is a school based in Western Australia using a coral reef VFT experience (e.g.…”

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Educate to Keep It Great: The Long-Term Successes of a Virtual Great Barrier Reef Education Program

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McGrogan

2020

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The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is under pressure from climate change and other threats, and part of the solution is to raise awareness of the GBR and its threats beyond a local audience (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, 2019). Reef HQ Aquarium (the national education centre for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority) implemented a virtual marine education program focussed on the GBR in 1998. The program uses videoconferencing technology to connect real-time marine biology experts to participants around the world. We report on > ten years of participant trends for this program to assess whether the program is a mechanism for increasing community educational outreach. Since 2005, the program increased the Aquarium's community and educational outreach by 4.8% by connecting an additional 83 388 participants from 19 countries worldwide. While the videoconference technology has evolved overtime, the program content remains a unique, interactive virtual experience that has proven to be an effective way for an informal learning institute to increase their outreach on a national and international level, particularly as there has been a transition to online learning and educational programs due the recent global Coronavirus pandemic.

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