Participatory Research on Using Virtual Reality to Teach Ocean Acidification: A Study in the Marine Education Community

Autor/inn/en	Fauville, Géraldine; Queiroz, Anna C. M.; Hambrick, Linda; Brown, Bryan A.; Bailenson, Jeremy N.
Titel	Participatory Research on Using Virtual Reality to Teach Ocean Acidification: A Study in the Marine Education Community
Quelle	In: Environmental Education Research, 27 (2021) 2, S.254-278 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fauville, Géraldine) ORCID (Queiroz, Anna C. M.) ORCID (Brown, Bryan A.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-4622
DOI	10.1080/13504622.2020.1803797
Schlagwörter	Participatory Research; Computer Simulation; Technology Integration; Environmental Education; Marine Education; Oceanography; Climate; Chemistry; Informal Education; Middle School Teachers; High School Teachers; Distance Education; Synchronous Communication; Barriers; Scientific Literacy; Science and Society; Empowerment; Perspective Taking; Visualization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschungstätigkeit; Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Ozeanografie; Klima; Chemie; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Middle school; Middle schools; Teacher; Teachers; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Zukunftsperspektive; Visualisation; Visualisierung
Abstract	Ocean Acidification (OA) is an emerging environmental issue that is still largely unknown to the public and in its infancy in terms of educational strategies. OA teaching material should address the specific challenges that educators face while building learners' understanding of OA. The objective of this study is two-fold. First, we identified the barriers to teaching OA as experienced by formal and informal marine educators. Second, we provided educators an opportunity to experience virtual reality and discuss how it could serve as a tool for face-to-face and distance learning to address the identified challenges. The findings shed light on four overarching themes of challenges to teaching OA: lack of science literacy, unprepared education field, complex and invisible nature of OA and lack of personal connection with the ocean. Marine educators consider empowerment, perspective-taking and visualization as the three principal avenues through which virtual reality may contribute to mitigating the challenges to teaching OA. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01