Strengthening Engagement in Science Understanding with Learning Trails
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Norsk Regnesentral, Postboks 114 Blindern, 0314 Oslo, Norway
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Expology AS, Sagveien 23F, 0459 Oslo, Norway
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Museum of Cultural History, Postboks 6762 St. Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo, Norway
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Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Kjelsåsveien 143, 0491 Oslo, Norway
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Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2019, 3(3), 48; https://doi.org/10.3390/mti3030048
Received: 14 May 2019
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Revised: 28 June 2019
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Accepted: 30 June 2019
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Published: 3 July 2019
The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology has developed a learning concept for school classes in science centres named “learning trails”. In this concept, groups of students perform a series of thematically related experiments with installations in the science centre. The learning trails are designed to support the generic learning outcomes for science centre visits. We argue that the previously developed Engagement Profile can be used to translate exhibit properties into both media forms and generic learning outcomes for such learning concepts. Further, we implemented the learning trails in two modes: one mode used paper-based content to guide the students, while the other mode supported the use of tablet PCs where engaging content is triggered when the students approach the location of an experiment in the learning trail. We studied the engagement factors of the learning trails and observed how school classes use these. In a study with 113 students from lower secondary school (age 16), they answered short questionnaires that were integrated into the implementation of the learning trails. While the concept of the learning trails was evaluated positively, we could not find significant differences in how engaging the two implemented modes were.
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Leister, W.; Tjøstheim, I.; Joryd, G.; Andersson, J.A.; Heggelund, H. Strengthening Engagement in Science Understanding with Learning Trails. Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2019, 3, 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti3030048
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Leister W, Tjøstheim I, Joryd G, Andersson JA, Heggelund H. Strengthening Engagement in Science Understanding with Learning Trails. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 2019; 3(3):48. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti3030048
Chicago/Turabian StyleLeister, Wolfgang, Ingvar Tjøstheim, Göran Joryd, Jan A. Andersson, and Håvard Heggelund. 2019. "Strengthening Engagement in Science Understanding with Learning Trails" Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 3, no. 3: 48. https://doi.org/10.3390/mti3030048
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