TY - GEN
T1 - VR Biology, an interdisciplinary and international student project towards an inquiry-based pedagogy
AU - Gomes, Teresa Dias Pedro
AU - Goei, Sui Lin
AU - Van Joolingen, Wouter
AU - Cai, Yiyu
PY - 2016/12/3
Y1 - 2016/12/3
N2 - Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is moving towards a more inquiry-based, and creativity stimulating pedagogy. Part of a curriculum based on such pedagogies should be challenging learning activities that engage students in investigation. At the same time, it is imperative that such activities are developed and validated in collaboration with the teachers who should incorporate them in their lesson planning. In this contribution we propose to develop innovative lessons in which such learning activities are embedded via the professional development method of Lesson Study with teachers Biology in (initial) teacher training in the Netherlands in close collaboration with students Mechanical Engineering in Singapore. Within this project both student groups will be using a model-based and VR-enabled solution created through an interdisciplinary and international collaboration between the Netherlands and Singapore.
AB - Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is moving towards a more inquiry-based, and creativity stimulating pedagogy. Part of a curriculum based on such pedagogies should be challenging learning activities that engage students in investigation. At the same time, it is imperative that such activities are developed and validated in collaboration with the teachers who should incorporate them in their lesson planning. In this contribution we propose to develop innovative lessons in which such learning activities are embedded via the professional development method of Lesson Study with teachers Biology in (initial) teacher training in the Netherlands in close collaboration with students Mechanical Engineering in Singapore. Within this project both student groups will be using a model-based and VR-enabled solution created through an interdisciplinary and international collaboration between the Netherlands and Singapore.
KW - Education in Science
KW - Engineering and Mathematics
KW - Inquiry-based pedagogy for biology
KW - Lesson Study
KW - Model based simulation
KW - Models in Biology
KW - Technology
KW - Virtual Reality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85009830167&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3014033.3014044
DO - 10.1145/3014033.3014044
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85009830167
SN - 9781450346931
T3 - Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Europe Symposium on Simulation & Serious Gaming - VRCAI '16
SP - 169
EP - 171
BT - Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Europe Symposium on Simulation and Serious Gaming - 15th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry, VRCAI 2016
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
CY - New York, New York, USA
T2 - 3rd Asia-Europe Symposium on Simulation and Serious Gaming - 15th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Virtual-Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry, VRCAI 2016
Y2 - 3 December 2016 through 4 December 2016
ER -