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Discover the Cosmos: Engaging Students with E-Learning Activities

This summary highlights the positive feedback from a meeting in Athens and activities in Birmingham on the Discover the Cosmos project. Teachers expressed the importance of interactive and hands-on activities, the relevance to curriculum topics, and the support and training needed to integrate e-learning resources effectively. The next steps include maintaining contact with teachers, setting up workshops, investigating new resources, and continuing outreach activities.

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Discover the Cosmos: Engaging Students with E-Learning Activities

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  1. Discover the Cosmos Athens meetingApril 11-12th 2012Activities in Birmingham UK& summary feedbackSeptember – March 2012 Lynne Long, University of Birmingham, UK

  2. Activities: Oct – Dec 2011

  3. Activities: Jan – Feb 2012

  4. Activities: March 2012

  5. Feedback from Visionary workshop • All teachers present were generally very positive about the Discover the Cosmos project and e-learning portals • Sparking interest and excitement ,and using hands-on, interactive activities in the classroom to enhance curriculum and encourage learning, were the most important factors for teachers • A minimum of 10/26 delegates attending were interested in running their own teaching training events with the e-learning resources – with our support • The majority of delegates left contact details and were keen to remain involved with the Discover the Cosmos project.

  6. Teacher opinions re main roles of e-Learning activities in the classroom • Allows more interactive rather than passive learning • Emphasises scientific methods • Encourages out of school learning/independent learning • Allows possible interaction with real scientific research – real data, real researchers etc. • Illustrates cutting edge experimentation/technology in action • Promotes skills development

  7. Teacher opinions re added value of e-Learning activities in the classroom • Provides excellent resources in one place • Good exposure for careers in science • Provides relevance to curriculum topics studied • Enhances teachers repertoire for classroom activities/updates teacher knowledge

  8. KEY requirement cited – activities must be relevant to school curriculum as well as Easy to pick up and use/don’t take too much time in the classroom Helpful if use of such resources Cited in syllabi as important Supported by senior management in schools Are championed by enthusiastic staff willing and able to support and train colleagues Necessary steps to integrate e-learning activities into school curriculum

  9. Most teachers very positive about this but need support, time and easy non problematical access Not many of the attending teachers were using e-resources regularly at the moment…and these were keen enthusiastic teacher leaders in their institutions! Possible student engagement now?..in the near future?

  10. To maintain contact with teacher delegates and outreach organisers, and to set up workshops to train more teacher groups in using the resources across various UK locations in the next 12 months. To investigate developments of resources that may span the HEP / Astronomy areas – eg software resources and activities based around the ALICE experiment at CERN. To maintain the momentum of outreach talks/activities to disseminate ideas to schools and general public and keep the interest generated so far in cutting edge science. Next Steps

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