Virtual neutron scattering experiments: Training and preparing students for large-scale facility experiments
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Virtual neutron scattering experiments : Training and preparing students for large-scale facility experiments. / Overgaard, Julie Hougaard; Bruun, Jesper; May, Michael; Udby, Linda.
I: Læring og Medier (LOM), Bind 9, Nr. 16, 23.02.2017, s. 1-28.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Virtual neutron scattering experiments
T2 - Training and preparing students for large-scale facility experiments
AU - Overgaard, Julie Hougaard
AU - Bruun, Jesper
AU - May, Michael
AU - Udby, Linda
PY - 2017/2/23
Y1 - 2017/2/23
N2 - We describe how virtual experiments can be utilized in a learning design that prepares students for hands-on experiments at large-scale facilities. We illustrate the design by showing how virtual experiments are used at the Niels Bohr Institute in a master level course on neutron scattering. In the last week of the course, students travel to a large-scale neutron scattering facility to perform real neutron scattering experiments. Through student interviews and survey answers, we argue, that the virtual training prepares the students to engage more fruitfully with experiments by letting them focus on physics and data rather than the overwhelming instrumentation. We argue that this is because they can transfer their virtual experimental experience to the real-life situation. However, we also find that learning is still situated in the sense that only knowledge of particular experiments is transferred. We proceed to discuss the affordances of virtual experiments.
AB - We describe how virtual experiments can be utilized in a learning design that prepares students for hands-on experiments at large-scale facilities. We illustrate the design by showing how virtual experiments are used at the Niels Bohr Institute in a master level course on neutron scattering. In the last week of the course, students travel to a large-scale neutron scattering facility to perform real neutron scattering experiments. Through student interviews and survey answers, we argue, that the virtual training prepares the students to engage more fruitfully with experiments by letting them focus on physics and data rather than the overwhelming instrumentation. We argue that this is because they can transfer their virtual experimental experience to the real-life situation. However, we also find that learning is still situated in the sense that only knowledge of particular experiments is transferred. We proceed to discuss the affordances of virtual experiments.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Læring
KW - Neutronspredning
KW - Læringsdesign
KW - Virtuelle eksperimenter
KW - learning
KW - neutron scattering
KW - learning design
KW - virtual experiments
UR - http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/lom/article/view/24231
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 1
EP - 28
JO - Læring og Medier
JF - Læring og Medier
SN - 1903-248X
IS - 16
ER -
ID: 173707682