Developing Virtual Field Trips for Agriculture

Q3 Social Sciences
Suresh Krishnasamy, Millicent R. Smith, Edward Naravan, Ammar Abdul Aziz, Eleanor W. Hoffman
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Field trips play an important role in teaching and learning, from stimulating students’ motivations to allowing students to connect in-class concepts and the real world. Including field trips within an agricultural curriculum is essential as concepts are highly interdisciplinary, and knowledge application to a range of production systems and environments is critical. Despite their importance, many factors, such as high enrolments, present challenges to its successful integration. Virtual field trips (VFT) allow universities to leverage the affordances of technology to mitigate some of the associated challenges while maintaining quality course delivery. In this pilot study, an experiential learning activity was designed around a VFT application, and the student experience and outcome were investigated. The student experience measures indicated satisfaction with multimedia elements, although it is noted that improvements to the user interface would enhance the experience. Students had positive reflections on the learning experience, including an increased interest in the field of study but did not see VFTs as replacing actual field trips. Paired t-tests showed students’ attainment of learning outcomes. This pilot implementation provides an activity design for other courses with similar challenges and highlights the value of VFTs to the curriculum for undergraduate agricultural courses.
开发虚拟农业实地考察
实地考察在教学和学习中发挥着重要作用,从激发学生的动机到让学生将课堂上的概念与现实世界联系起来。在农业课程中包括实地考察是必不可少的,因为概念是高度跨学科的,知识应用于一系列生产系统和环境是至关重要的。尽管它们很重要,但许多因素,如高入学率,对其成功整合提出了挑战。虚拟实地考察(VFT)允许大学利用技术的支持来减轻一些相关的挑战,同时保持高质量的课程交付。在这个试点研究中,围绕VFT应用程序设计了一个体验式学习活动,并调查了学生的体验和结果。学生体验测量表明对多媒体元素的满意度,尽管注意到用户界面的改进将增强体验。学生们对学习经历有积极的反映,包括对研究领域的兴趣增加,但并不认为VFTs取代了实际的实地考察。配对t检验显示学生对学习成果的达到程度。这一试点实施为其他具有类似挑战的课程提供了一种活动设计,并突出了VFTs对本科农业课程的价值。
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