Designing for social learning implies understanding the perspective, interests and needs of intended participants. Our goal is to design an online environment that supports a community of practice for paleontology that includes amateurs and professionals. This online space will be designed to support shared practice related to the domain of knowledge that we delimit as: understanding the natural world through the collection, preparation, curation and study of fossils and the science of paleontology. We call this practice social paleontology—an inclusive form of computer-supported collaborative scientific inquiry. This study sought to understand the expectations of citizens as intended users of such a space based upon their experiences with and conceptions of social media. The results inform the theory of social learning while building our capacity for achieving a successful design.
Presentation
Designing for Social Paleontology: An Exploratory Study of Citizen Mental Models
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education
Document Type
Conference Paper
Location
Chesapeake, VA
Publication Date
10-19-2015
Disciplines
Abstract
Citation Information
Lundgren, L. & Crippen, K. J. (2015, October). Designing for social paleontology: An exploratory study of citizen mental models, In The Proceedings of E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015, pp. 849-858. Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).