This short video illustrates the cool use of technology to enhance the learning experience of students on a geology field trip. The ‘Out There and In Here’ project explores the possibilities for new technologies to support distributed, synchronous collaborations between students in the field and others based in a stationary location.
The project team are developing and evaluating systems to link students using mobile computing devices in the field, connecting via mobile phones or satellite data networks, to students and associate lecturers in a ‘mission control’ style classroom which also uses new technologies such as an interactive table-top and projected displays to support access to a range of resources as well as data review, hypotheses development and reports.
Recent Discovery trials at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge used the latest version of the OTIH system.
