Geoscience Education Research Discussions

One of AUGEN’s objectives is to encourage and support excellence in teaching and learning in geoscience across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Geoscience Education Research (GER) Discussion Group

The AUGEN TEAM will be running occasional open discussion sessions on specific topics in Geoscience Education Research, including how to get started! There are many possible projects we could explore within the AUGEN TEAM network and joining in these discussions is a great way to get started! We look forward to seeing you online.

Please get in touch with Jackie or Sandra if you have a research question you would like to develop, or a topic that you would like to collaborate on!

Next event!

TBC


Past events

June 2022

Interactive v. Traditional methods of lecturing

Dr Jacqueline Dohaney, University of Edinburgh

We had an excellent session as Jackie took us through the landmark Hake (1998) paper https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.18809 that illustrated, for the first time, the learning gains for students from an active learning approach. We met concept inventories and thought about how we could use them (and possibly even develop our own) for AUGEN TEAM research.

Take home: active learning works!

We need to advocate for more flexible timetabling for our teaching to allow more active learning approaches (note, this is not saying that the ‘lecture is dead’, it isn’t!) as well as maintain our commitment to our traditional active learning strategies like field work and practical classes.

Audio transcript available here, passcode: z&9u!3%y

Video recording available here, passcode: z&9u!3%y

February 2022

We held an excellent discussion session in conjunction with the annual AUGEN TEAM meeting in February 2022. This involved workshopping two research questions and developing plans for AUGEN Geoscience Education Research into the future - watch this space!

  • November 2021 - Introducing the GER Framework

    Our inaugural Geoscience Education Research (GER) Discussion was had on Monday 15 November and we discussed the GER framework (Summary report: St Johns et al., 2021). outlining the ten key topics in GER and their meanings.

    The recording is available on cloudstor (password: 68j3VR2C@YoS)

    Shared Screen With Speaker View (Video) (1.6 GB)

    https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/s/Otrw98WsimPCNxB

    Audio Only (35.4 MB)

    https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/plus/s/zdfJOJMglM7w7fw

    Chat file

    POLL RESULTS

    Reading and resources:

    Summary report: https://doi.org/10.1080/10899995.2020.1779569

    Full framework report: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/ger_framework/15/

    SERC GER Community: https://nagt.org/nagt/geoedresearch/index.html

    Many thanks to Jackie Dohaney for leading our discussion group!