Dr John Rieuwerts, Dr Malcolm Nimmo, Phil Tubman A new stage 2 residential field course for the BSc Environmental Science programme is currently being designed and planned which will be based in West Cornwall. This residential field trip is being offered as an alternative to current destinations (China, Malaysia and Malta) at zero cost and having a comparatively low Carbon footprint.
The main aims of project will be to:
(i) Develop a web based information resource with a generic framework, allowing future developments, containing academic information of each site to be visited and presented in an interactive form (formative assessments, images, video footage) and linking to a new LabPlus resource.
(ii) Underpin the information presented for each site with a video tour by selected academic staff. In addition we will use representatives from key stakeholder groups (Natural England, National Trust etc).
(iii) Develop a series of research projects (n=4) which groups of 4/5 students will undertake at the end of their residential field course. These will be presented in a special interactive “virtual” tour section, with formative assessment, providing students with hypothesese to be tested and guidance and information allowing them to develop a research strategy (sampling site, parameters to be measured, data statistical treatment and synthesis).
(iv) Pilot the compilation / transfer of all web based material (images, video footage) to a readable format onto iPods and assess their usefulness as a reference source for students in the field.
(v) Evaluate the interactive web based sessions with student questionnaire, focus group and formative interactive assessments enabling future developments.
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