The role of planetariums in promoting engagement and learning [electronic resource] / Michael Reid, ... [et al.].

"This study is preliminary - a first attempt at assessing the best way to use a digital planetarium as a teaching tool. One of our main conclusions is that first-year non-science students are not well equipped to manage their own learning in a planetarium environment without a lot of scaffolding. The “wow factor” of being in a planetarium does not necessarily draw them in quickly or deeply enough to overcome the technical difficulties of operating the planetarium. Moreover, the students were very clear in expressing that, though they saw the planetarium as a potentially very useful learning tool, they would need to spend a lot of time in it getting used to the controls before useful learning could result."--Executive Summary.

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"This study is preliminary - a first attempt at assessing the best way to use a digital planetarium as a teaching tool. One of our main conclusions is that first-year non-science students are not well equipped to manage their own learning in a planetarium environment without a lot of scaffolding. The “wow factor” of being in a planetarium does not necessarily draw them in quickly or deeply enough to overcome the technical difficulties of operating the planetarium. Moreover, the students were very clear in expressing that, though they saw the planetarium as a potentially very useful learning tool, they would need to spend a lot of time in it getting used to the controls before useful learning could result."--Executive Summary.

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