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Digital Astronomy in Education

Astronomical phenomenons involve often complex concepts and their explanation requires always the development of several levels of representation. It would be indeed difficult to explain for example, the concept of the austral seasons, in absence of representations as shown in Figure 1. Without graphical representations, our understanding would be imperfect since the volume of information provi...

The Revolution in Astronomy Education

As our capacity to study ever-expanding domains of our science has increased (including the time domain, non-electromagnetic phenomena, magnetized plasmas, and numerous sky surveys in multiple wavebands with broad spatial coverage and unprecedented depths), so have the horizons of our understanding of the Universe been similarly expanding. This expansion is coupled to the exponential data delug...

Urania, a Linked, Distributed Resource for Astronomy

Above all, the electronic information environment is interlinked. When done effectively, links knit together the scholarly references, citations and data sources for the user as never before, bringing the whole web of distributed information resources right to the reader’s desktop. A certain amount of infrastructure and degree of cooperation is needed to make this happen effectively. The field ...

A Review of Astronomy Education Research

The field of astronomy education is rapidly growing beyond merely sharing effective activities or curriculum ideas. This paper categorizes and summarizes the literature in astronomy education research and contains more than 100 references to articles, books, and Web-based materials. Research into student understanding on a variety of topics now occupies a large part of the literature. Topics in...

Catch the Stars in the Net! Project for Astronomy Education and Outreach via the Internet