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ERA: Enhancing Fieldwork Learning in South Wales

This weekend we’ve been at the Field Studies Council’s Margham Discovery Centre,ย  on the hills overlooking Port Talbot steelworks. The Enhancing Fieldwork Learning project kindly invited us to demonstrate ERA technology to key UK fieldwork education practitioners alongside an engaging … Continue reading

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ERA field trip at Plymouth ‘GEES Learning and Teaching’ conference

On July 7th, the ERA team and our Plymouth University GEES collaborators John Maskell, Paul Lunt, Jason Truscott, Matt Sharples and Alison Stokes demonstrated the use of remote learning with ERA technology at the Devon Great Consols site. A minibus … Continue reading

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Plymouth University trials ERA

At the end of June, we conducted some experiments to evaluate the performance of ERA-assisted fieldwork compared to the same fieldwork task being performed by students visiting the site directly. Four groups of students volunteers visited Devon Great Consols to … Continue reading

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ERA introduction video

Here’s a 2 minute video we produced for our field trials in Plymouth as an introduction to the ERA project.

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ERA visits Plymouth to demonstrate at GEES

On Monday 29th March (2010) we (John and Trevor) visited the Higher Education Academy’s Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Subject Centre based at the University of Plymouth. We met with John Maskall and Jason Truscott, and showed them the portable … Continue reading

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