GreenDesigners: An overview with Fariha Salman
Channel: Center for Online Innovation in Learning
Date: 10/07/2015

GreenDesigners is a place-based, augmented mobile learning experience for sustainable engineering design. It marks a departure from previous research on technologically-enhanced, outside-school learning experiences through a design that coordinates learning in the real-world (~informal) with learning in the schools (~formal) within STEM education.

Employing Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the project connects engineering design concepts to sustainability practices. Located across the nine-acres of Penn State Sustainability Experience Center (SEC), high school students interact with an Augmented Reality Learning (ARL) interface on handhelds while learning about engineering design concepts embedded in the sustainable technologies on site. The ARL interface guides students through a gamified-trail of augmented information layered onto predetermined sustainable technologies on site. Students progress through the game’s physical and virtual levels, as they interact with learning and assessment tasks along each game-trail spot.

GreenDesigners seeks to pioneer development of innovative, interdisciplinary, mobile learning designs that coordinate learning across real-world and classroom settings.

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