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2020_09_23 «Online fieldwork: Opportunities for fieldwork at a distance» - Trevor Collins
1. Online fieldwork
Opportunities for fieldwork at a distance
Dr Trevor Collins
Senior Research Fellow in Technology-Enhanced Learning
Knowledge Media Institute (STEM Faculty)
trevor.collins@open.ac.uk
2. Overview
• Fieldwork education
• Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic
• Returning to the field post Covid-19
• Interactive field-based webcasts (fieldcasts)
• Flexible and inclusive fieldwork
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3. Fieldwork education
• Educational approach: Constructivist
paradigm / experiential learning
• “Fieldwork education provides
opportunities for students to
synthesise and apply knowledge,
acquire professional field skills and
techniques, develop the values and
ethics of practicing geoscience, and
gain exposure to a variety of geological
phenomena” (Pyle, 2009)
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4. Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic
• Twitter poll #fieldworkfix (1st to 8th April)
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• https://wke.lt/w/s/n1BX_N
5. Returning to the field post Covid-19
• Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Showcase (8th Sept)
• https://enhancingfieldwork.org.uk/the-efl-showcase
• Virtual fieldwork (photos, GigaPan photos, videos)
• Hyperlocal fieldwork (what can you do locally)
• OU: Online and blended approaches
• Interactive fieldcasts and residential field schools
• Post Covid-19: Responsible and sustainable fieldwork
• Call for flexible and inclusive fieldwork education
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6. Online: Interactive fieldcasts (and labcasts)
Tuesday, 12th June 2019 Ed-ICT International Network Meeting
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• Example: Environmental Science module
• Student-led investigation in 3 episodes
• Live video, widgets and online chat
• Recorded broadcasts available as replays
• “… it felt like you were kind of there, it
was a live film cast. It felt like you could
have been standing in the field …” (S1)
• “… the biggest thing was the interaction,
where you could put your thoughts in, and you
could practice basically what you have learnt” (S4)
7. Interactive fieldcasts
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Video sources
NDI|HXEthernet
WiFi
Local network Video mixer
RTMP
Localnetwork(fieldsite)
Internet(home/university)
Internet Students
8. Post Covid-19: Flexible and inclusive fieldwork
• Sustainable and responsible fieldwork
• Pre Covid-19: Virtual or physical fieldwork
• Post Covid-19: Spectrum of blended approaches
• Online access to international field sites and field experts
• Complementing physical with virtual field experiences
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9. Online fieldwork
Opportunities for fieldwork at a distance
Dr Trevor Collins
Senior Research Fellow in Technology-Enhanced Learning
Knowledge Media Institute (STEM Faculty)
trevor.collins@open.ac.uk
Hinweis der Redaktion
Dr Trevor Collins is a Senior Research Fellow in Technology-Enhanced Learning at The Open University, United Kingdom. Where he is the Deputy Director of the eSTEeM Centre for STEM Pedagogy and a Co-Director of the Children’s Research Centre. He has a background in Computer Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction, and his research explores sociotechnical approaches to developing educational technology that support social learning and inclusive teaching. He is particularly interested in the use of technology to encourage online collaboration and discussion.
A positive outcome from the coronavirus pandemic has been a renewed interest in and acceptance of e-learning. Not by choice, but through necessity, educators have adopted online forms of teaching and learning to complete ongoing courses. Field-based disciplines have been transformed during the pandemic as field courses have been replaced by virtual, online, or alternate forms of provision. As we return to the field, this presentation will discuss what forms of online or blended approaches to fieldwork might be sustained, and the opportunities these provide for flexible and inclusive learning.
Dr Trevor Collins is a Senior Research Fellow in Technology-Enhanced Learning at The Open University, United Kingdom. Where he is the Deputy Director of the eSTEeM Centre for STEM Pedagogy and a Co-Director of the Children’s Research Centre. He has a background in Computer Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction, and his research explores sociotechnical approaches to developing educational technology that support social learning and inclusive teaching. He is particularly interested in the use of technology to encourage online collaboration and discussion.