The NASA Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) Announces 2007 College Astronomy Teaching Excellence Workshops

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-253
Author(s):  
unattributed
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
College Astronomy

scholarly journals A Brief History Of Publishing Papers On Astronomy Education Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Fraknoi
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Physics Education ◽  
Short History ◽  
College Physics ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
College Astronomy ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Introductory College ◽  
Education Review

While some research had been done on K-12 and planetarium astronomy teaching from the 1930's to the 1980's, the growth of research on college physics education offered astronomy education researchers a model for examining techniques for teaching introductory college astronomy survey "Astronomy 101" courses as well. This early research was published in widely scattered journals and rarely reached the practitioners of astronomy education. The need to inform and unite the community of astronomy educators led to the birth of the journal "Astronomy Education Review," whose history and sudden death is analyzed. This paper provides a short history of publishing astronomy education research results and provides context for the advent of the new Journal of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education (JAESE).

An Interview with Associate Professor Margaret Plunkett

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-53
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Gifted Education ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
National Office ◽  
Vice Chancellors

Associate Professor Margaret Plunkett, Federation University, Australia, has over 30 years' experience in education. She currently coordinates and lectures in a range of courses and programs in both secondary and primary education, related to gifted education and professional experience. Margaret has won a number of awards for teaching excellence including the Monash Vice Chancellors Teaching Excellence Award (Special Commendation, 2010); the Pearson/ATEA Teacher Educator of the Year Award (2012); and a National Office of Learning of Learning and Teaching (OLT) Citation in 2014.

A 3D Universe? Students’ and professors’ perception of multidimensionality

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (A30) ◽  
pp. 573-574
Author(s):  
Urban Eriksson ◽  
Wolfgang Steffen
Keyword(s):  
Astronomy Education

AbstractThis paper discusses the importance of learning to understand the three-dimensionality of astronomical objects, in particular nebulae. After collecting data from students’ and professors’ discernment of 3D we finds that this is difficult for both students and professors, which highlights the importance of addressing extrapolating three-dimensionality in astronomy education.

Practical Astronomy Education at the National University of Singapore (NUS)

2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950004
Author(s):  
A. Yang ◽  
S. C. Cindy Ng ◽  
Q. Leong ◽  
M. H. Tan ◽  
P. Agarwal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
General Education ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Astronomy Education ◽  
National University ◽  
Robotic Telescope ◽  
Astronomy And Astrophysics

Singapore is not known for astronomy research. However, the interest in astronomy has grown since the 1990s, when more educational institutions and observatories were built to equip students with the skills and knowledge in astronomy. The National University of Singapore (NUS) currently has a strong and rigorous astronomy and astrophysics programme that leads to an astrophysics specialization within the physics B.Sc. degree as well as four general education modules in astronomy and astrophysics. As experimental data is the final arbiter of any scientific theory, we emphasize the practical aspects of astronomy in this programme. We also have a state-of-the-art observatory equipped with a robotic telescope and a planetarium for tutorials. This paper outlines the philosophy, pedagogy and approach of how our NUS team has achieved a very successful undergraduate astronomy and astrophysics for aspiring Singaporean youth.

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