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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Virtual field trips key to innovative teaching for ASU scientist - Arizona State University
ASU Professor Ariel Anbar has put much effort into developing a series of immersive virtual field trips (iVFTs) in conjunction with ASU education technologist Geoffrey Bruce and ASU associate professor Steven Semken, and various geoscience colleagues around the world. Their efforts are supported in part by NASA and by the NSF. The project is now extending beyond geoscience, with faculty from other fields developing field trips using the same technology framework. For Anbar, each virtual field trip can "provide at least some of the gains you would get out of a real field trip," but they are accessible to many more students, and at far less cost, than a comparable physical trip.
https://asunews.asu.edu/20141003-anbar-virtual-field-trips