Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Participants
- Welcome and Opening Address
- Astronomy Education: an International Perspective
- Special Lecture: Sundials in London – Linking architecture and astronomy
- 1 University Education
- 2 Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
- Distance Education in Astronomy: At-a-distance and on campus, a growing force
- Teaching Astronomy at the University of South Africa
- A Multi-Resource System for Remote Teaching in Astronomy: its aims, its design, the point of view of the learners
- Use of the World Wide Web in Astronomy Teaching
- On-Line Resources for Classroom Use: data and science results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other missions
- Bringing the Universe into the Laboratory – Project CLEA: contemporary laboratory exercises in astronomy
- Project LINK: a live and interactive network of knowledge
- Computer as a Tool in Astronomy Teaching
- Mathwise Astronomy and the Teaching and Learning Technology Project: aiding or degrading education
- A Virtual Telescope for the Open University Science Foundation Course
- The Presence of Multimedia in Astronomy Teaching
- 3 The Student Learning Process
- 4 Planetarium Education and Training
- 5 Public Education in Astronomy
- 6 Teaching Astronomy in the Schools
- Posters
- Final Address
- Authors
The Presence of Multimedia in Astronomy Teaching
from 2 - Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Participants
- Welcome and Opening Address
- Astronomy Education: an International Perspective
- Special Lecture: Sundials in London – Linking architecture and astronomy
- 1 University Education
- 2 Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
- Distance Education in Astronomy: At-a-distance and on campus, a growing force
- Teaching Astronomy at the University of South Africa
- A Multi-Resource System for Remote Teaching in Astronomy: its aims, its design, the point of view of the learners
- Use of the World Wide Web in Astronomy Teaching
- On-Line Resources for Classroom Use: data and science results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other missions
- Bringing the Universe into the Laboratory – Project CLEA: contemporary laboratory exercises in astronomy
- Project LINK: a live and interactive network of knowledge
- Computer as a Tool in Astronomy Teaching
- Mathwise Astronomy and the Teaching and Learning Technology Project: aiding or degrading education
- A Virtual Telescope for the Open University Science Foundation Course
- The Presence of Multimedia in Astronomy Teaching
- 3 The Student Learning Process
- 4 Planetarium Education and Training
- 5 Public Education in Astronomy
- 6 Teaching Astronomy in the Schools
- Posters
- Final Address
- Authors
Summary
Introduction
Sometimes I find my self in a society in the middle of The Global Village and sometimes in a society in a little state with a large number of computers not speaking the language I usually talk. When a prevailing part of the population are working in one area the society is named after that area, allthough a lot of other things can characterize the society. The latest societies are:
Agricultural society
Industrial society
Information society
The agricultural and industrial societies have come to an end. When a society comes to an end, it is usually because the efficiency of production reaches a level higher than necessary, to keep all the workers busy. Many of the workers are attracted to other kinds of work, which gives rise to the next culture.
We must imagine a similar over production of information, so that the number of people occupied by producing information will start to decline. Some say that we have reach the end point already, because we have access to information from all over the world through computers, Internet and World Wide Web in an amount larger than we can handle. But that may not be true because we are waiting for large numbers of the population to learn to utilize all that information. The demand may increase for some time to come.
We can see the extremly high impact computers have on politicians, compared to their previous interest in libraries. In Denmark more money has been put into school computers during the last five years, than have ever been used for school library books.
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- New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , pp. 106 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998