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Designing for Social Paleontology: An Exploratory Study of Citizen Mental Models
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, , University of Florida, College of Education, School of Teaching and Learning, United States

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Kona, Hawaii, United States Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA

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Designing for social learning implies understanding the perspective, interests and needs of intended participants. Our goal is to design an online environment that supports a community of practice for paleontology that includes amateurs and professionals. This online space will be designed to support shared practice related to the domain of knowledge that we delimit as: understanding the natural world through the collection, preparation, curation and study of fossils and the science of paleontology. We call this practice social paleontology—an inclusive form of computer-supported collaborative scientific inquiry. This study sought to understand the expectations of citizens as intended users of such a space based upon their experiences with and conceptions of social media. The results inform the theory of social learning while building our capacity for achieving a successful design.

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Lundgren, L. & Crippen, K. (2015). Designing for Social Paleontology: An Exploratory Study of Citizen Mental Models. In Proceedings of E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 849-858). Kona, Hawaii, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 20, 2022 from .

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