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nQuire: Technological Support for Personal Inquiry Learning
2012
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
This paper describes the development of nQuire, a software application to guide personal inquiry learning. nQuire provides teacher support for authoring, orchestrating, and monitoring inquiries as well ...
as student support for carrying out, configuring, and reviewing inquiries. nQuire allows inquiries to be scripted and configured in various ways, so that personally relevant, rather than offthe-shelf ...
They would also like to thank Sciencescope for their advice and support. ...
doi:10.1109/tlt.2011.32
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nQuire for the OpenScience Lab: Supporting Communities of Inquiry Learning
[chapter]
2013
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
We have developed a platform to support Citizen Inquiry activities, based on the nQuire Toolkit software which was originally designed to support inquiry-based learning activities for schools. ...
Citizen Inquiry is an innovative way for learners to engage in practical scientific activities, in which they take the role of self-regulated scientists in informal learning contexts. ...
Background (Technology) To support citizen inquiry activities, several extensions to the nQuire Toolkit have been made: -Integration of scientific instruments. nQuire is currently being integrated with ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40814-4_64
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Designing citizen science tools for learning: lessons learnt from the iterative development of nQuire
2018
Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning
This paper reports on a 4-year research and development case study about the design of citizen science tools for inquiry learning. ...
DBR was focused on the refinement of a central concept, 'citizen inquiry', by exploring how it can be instantiated in educational technologies and interventions. ...
science tools for supporting inquiry learning, in particular the nQuire-it platform and the Sense-it mobile application. ...
doi:10.1186/s41039-018-0072-1
pmid:30595735
pmcid:PMC6294203
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Visions for the Future of Educational Technology
[chapter]
2019
Educational visions: The lessons from 40 years of innovation
A promising future research agenda is to examine how new educational technology can combine personalized with social learning. ...
Educational Technology is in a period of exciting change, with new technologies such as augmented and virtual reality, new techniques to analyse student data, and new pedagogies for learning online at ...
And some themes set an agenda for future research and development, including analytics for learning and how to combine personalized with social learning online. ...
doi:10.5334/bcg.j
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Orchestrating new forms of learning using technology
2011
Zenodo
Deliverable for STELLAR project ...
For more information see http://www.migen.org/ or contact Richard Noss [r.noss@ioe.ac.uk] The Personal Inquiry project aimed to provide a continuous learning experience across contexts in order to support ...
Orchestrating inquiry learning within and beyond the classroom
Challenges for teachers The Personal Inquiry project found that the role of the teacher was central for successful orchestration, but that ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.4412848
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An exploration of inquiry-based authentic learning enabled by mobile technology for primary science
2021
International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation
Thus, we conducted a study on exploring the impact of a learning platform nQuire-it together with its scientific mobile sensors in an authentic and inquiry-based learning environment on students' science ...
To examine the effectiveness of this learning platform and its mobile sensors, a mixed methods study was conducted for analysing students' performance in science inquiry, conceptual understanding and ability ...
supporting the nQuire-it implementation and research in Hong Kong. ...
doi:10.1504/ijmlo.2021.10032844
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Orchestrating Inquiry Learning
2015
Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning
The authors discuss personal inquiry learning, the role of technology in supporting inquiry projects, and the key approaches to scripting. ...
The various roles of the computer-based toolkit (nQuire, also discussed in Chapters 2, 4, and 5) in supporting learning are also explored, as are students' learning outcomes and the implications for supporting ...
doi:10.7771/1541-5015.1542
fatcat:yf5ntgfrm5c7rk37ndw66iquc4
Personal Inquiry: Orchestrating Science Investigations Within and Beyond the Classroom
2014
The Journal of the Learning Sciences
We report the design of the nQuire toolkit, a system to support scripted personal inquiry learning, and a study of its use with school students ages 11-14. ...
Our ambition has been to recruit scripted personal technologies into the support of effective learning between formal and informal settings. The nQuire software application addresses this aim. ...
doi:10.1080/10508406.2014.944642
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Supporting Citizen Inquiry: An Investigation of Moon Rock
[chapter]
2013
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Citizen inquiry is an innovative way for non-professionals to engage in practical scientific activities, in which they take the role of self-regulated scientists in informal learning contexts. ...
To understand the challenges of supporting citizen inquiry, a prototype system and activity has been developed: the Moon Rock Explorer. ...
Inquiry Based Learning support The Personal Inquiry project developed the nQuire toolkit to support IBL activities for science learning in secondary education (Mulholland et al., 2012) . ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40814-4_30
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The Sense-it App
2017
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning
NQUIRe-IT: A PLATFoRM FoR CITIZeN INQUIRy The nQuire-it platform was also developed during the nQuire: Young Citizen Inquiry project. ...
SeNSe-IT: A MoBILe APPLICATIoN FoR CITIZeN INQUIRy Central to citizen inquiry is the use of personal mobile devices for collecting and sharing data. ...
As technology enables a more seamless experience of device supported learning worlds that may integrate mobile, embedded, augmented, and immersive technologies, we may expect to see increasing interest ...
doi:10.4018/ijmbl.2017040102
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Methods of Promoting Learning and Data Quality in Citizen and Community Science
2021
Frontiers in Climate
They are less likely to have an explicit objective to support and promote volunteers' learning. ...
support from the Open University/BBC partnership. nQuire scaffolds the design of high quality scientific inquiries through an authoring functionality and a process of data quality review by experts. ...
biodiversity datasets. nQuire Citizen or Community Inquiry has been operationalised in a bespoke, online solution, the nQuire platform (www.nquire.org.uk). nQuire has been designed with support from the ...
doi:10.3389/fclim.2021.614567
fatcat:uqiaayoejnh23a3bxgd5du6gie
STEM Learning: Foundations
[chapter]
2019
Educational visions: The lessons from 40 years of innovation
In this chapter we will consider our work on conceptual change in science and on the development of pedagogy and technology on personal inquiry using nQuire, and include work integrating these developments ...
We illustrate how judicious use of technology and pedagogy can promote enthusiastic engagement with science and give opportunities for participation and learning. ...
At the culmination of this project we developed nQuire, a software application to guide personal inquiry learning. nQuire provides teacher support for authoring, orchestrating and monitoring inquiries ...
doi:10.5334/bcg.h
fatcat:olgd4xwqpfgsbh45maqlfl33om
Using object-based activities and an online inquiry platform to support learners' engagement with their heritage language and culture
[chapter]
2016
CALL communities and culture – short papers from EUROCALL 2016
For the purposes of this study, the learners used mobile and web-based technologies, i.e. nQuire-It platform (http://www.nquire-it. org), to explore their environment through specific missions. ...
The paper presents this study and shares some preliminary findings and insights regarding the integration of mobile technologies within heritage language learning and teaching. ...
Acknowledgements We would like to thank the British Academy for providing the funding for this study (British Academy Schools Language Awards 2015). ...
doi:10.14705/rpnet.2016.eurocall2016.543
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STEM Learning: Futures
[chapter]
2019
Educational visions: The lessons from 40 years of innovation
The case studies in this chapter illustrate the persistent intent of supporting science learners and a shared vision of the range of support under development for this end. ...
In one thread we look at informal learning and linking journeys between formal and informal learning and how we have built on previous work on developing inquiry learning. ...
In the case of Citizen Inquiry, advancements in technology enabled testing and evaluation of this pedagogy and supported progress towards a learning vision. ...
doi:10.5334/bcg.i
fatcat:xe3jfpmanzby3frf4s4yunyzr4
Sense-it: A Smartphone Toolkit for Citizen Inquiry Learning
[chapter]
2015
Communications in Computer and Information Science
As a tool for inquiry learning, the sensors can be linked to 'missions' on the nQuire-it website, allowing learners to sample and share data for collaborative crowd-sourced investigations. ...
These four investigations represent a variety of methods to initiate, orchestrate and conclude inquiry science learning. ...
Acknowledgements We wish to thank Nominet Trust for funding this project, and Sheffield UTC for the support of teachers and students as collaborators in the design of nQuire-it and Sense-it. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25684-9_27
fatcat:3rtdcbclqjfnnn76scrqoeby7i
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