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Virtual geology special issue: developing training, teaching and research skillsets for geoscientists

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Current physical science students and researchers are becoming ever more diverse in their learning needs and styles, in their ways of learning and indeed their scientific backgrounds in the subjects that they study. Current schools, colleges and Higher Education students are increasingly ‘digital natives’, connected 24/7 through mobile devices, generally goal-orientated and responding well to digitally-based activities and tasks. Whilst the structured nature of classrooms, traditional lectures and laboratory practicals obviously still dominate geoscience teaching, and core outdoor field trips and independent mapping/research are of paramount importance, more innovative complementary learning, teaching and research technologies are being developed by a wide variety of computer software developers, practitioners and educationalists.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 1, 2015
Online Publication Date Nov 19, 2015
Publication Date 2015-11
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Geology Today
Print ISSN 0266-6979
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 31
Issue 6
Pages 213 -215
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12118
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gto.12118

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