Short overview of out plans to use e-learning for fieldwork and excursions.

1. Let’s go outside!
Digital learning content for
excursions and fieldworks.
Wouter Marra1*, Marin Groothengel1, Vincent van Hees2,
Derek Karssenberg1, Liesbeth van de Grint3, Esther
Stouthamer1, Leo Paul2 & Marcel van der Perk1
1 Dep. Physical Geography
2 Dep. Human Geography and Planning
3 Centre for Education and Learning (COLUU)
*w.a.marra@uu.nl
Faculty of Geosciences
Funding
Stimuleringsregeling open en online onderwijs (OCW)

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3. Motivation
• USO project fieldwork: preparation and data-processing
• Quantitative analysis with GIS
• Relate own data to existing data
• But not in the field
• This project
• Digital learning content and map in the field
• Stimuleringsregeling OCW
• Create content for 3 cases and evaluate
• Focus on improving education
• Report added value, lessons learned, etc.
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4. Goal of this lunch lecture
• Possibilities and added value of mobile learning content
• Show examples of previous uses and plans
• Inspire & discuss
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6. Learning goals and excursion forms
Kent et al. (1997) / Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
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7. Opportunities of digital learning content
• Easier to include more participation and autonomy
• Match cognitive skills to excursion type
• Data collection
• Analysis with GIS
• Archive
• Activate students more
• Personal experience
• Differentiate different levels
• Students are used to use mobile devices
• Logistics / flexible planning
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8. Example data-collection - Bike wrecks
ESRI collector – Students collect part of group dataset
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9. Example: excursion Kromme Rijn
ESRI collector as guide and for excercises
Without tutor – Time-series of photos
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10. Our project
Using tablets for field activities
• Mobile e-lectures
• Location-based content
• Digital maps
• Collecting data / drawing on maps
Three cases
• Create content
• Evaluate and report
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11. Excursion Landscape & Geology
• Geologie van Nederland
• Part of the classic excursion of Berendsen et al.
• Connect landscape elements to subsurface
Apps:
- IZI-travel
- Excursion guide with route, images, videos and text
- Guidance with audio
- ESRI Collector
- Photos, lines, points, …
- Available online after excursion
- Avenza maps
- View (georeferenced) maps
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13. Germany / Poland – June 2017
• Gentrification in Berlin
• Spatial development plan Wroclaw
Goals
• Active learning
• Combining existing data sets with observational research
• Digital maps, video & audio fragments, photo’s
• e-lecture tour through Berlin (instead of walking with teacher)
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14. Modules to learn to work with equipment
• Register default field (or lab) procedures
• E.g. Sieving, DGPS, sampling
• Self containing packages with video, photos, digital manuals, etc
• Practice first, review instructions during fieldwork.
• Plus content on data-processing, data quality, etc.
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Example: Wageningen UR

15. Discussion
• Questions?
• Ideas?
• Can we help?
• Critical notes?
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w.a.marra@uu.nl