Immersive visualisation for field-based sciences : final report.
Field work is a cornerstone of education programs in many disciplines and nothing can fully replace the tactile experience of holding and manipulating an object or the insight gained by exploring, touching and documenting a field site. Within university undergraduate units, however, it is not possib...
| Institutions: | University of Melbourne University of Tasmania University of Queensland Australian National University University of Western Australia |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
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Australia. Dept of Education, Skills and Employment
2020
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| Online dostop: | https://ltr.edu.au/resources/ID14-3628_Roach_Report_2020.pdf |
| Izvleček: | Field work is a cornerstone of education programs in many disciplines and nothing can fully replace the tactile experience of holding and manipulating an object or the insight gained by exploring, touching and documenting a field site. Within university undergraduate units, however, it is not possible to expose students to a fully comprehensive range of field experiences. Important localities are widely dispersed across the continent and many significant sites are situated in inaccessible or dangerous locations where student visits are simply not practical. Financial, safety, legislative and logistic issues and trends towards increased flexible content delivery, mean that resources to complement conventional field-based teaching programs are urgently needed. This project has pioneered development of these new resources for field geology education, but the methodology and procedures that have been developed are directly applicable to other field-based disciplines. Geoscience field work teaches a range of important observational and analytical skills in an experiential learning context. Geological field education is particularly distinguished by the need for students to document and conceptualise phenomena in both time and space and to develop high-level spatial perception skills. This project has developed a Virtual Atlas of Australia’s Geology called the AusGeol library (www.AusGeol.org) that now contains visualisations from over 3,200 sites that collectively document many of Australia’s significant geological outcrops. This library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of geological visualisations in the world and is the only collection of visualisations that attempts to systematically document the geology of an entire continent. [Executive summary, ed] |
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| ISBN: | 9781760519568 (PDF) 9781760519575 (DOCX) 9781760519582 (print ed) 9781760519568 (PDF) 9781760519575 (DOCX) 9781760519582 (print ed) |
