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Facilitating student understanding about climate science: El Niño as an online case study
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Holbrook, NJ and Devonshire, E, Facilitating student understanding about climate science: El Nino as an online case study, Proceedings of the Improving Learning Outcomes Through Flexible Science Teaching Symposium, October, Sydney, NSW, pp. 31-36. ISBN 1 86487 490 2 (2003) [Refereed Conference Paper]
Abstract
El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been shown to be the dominant factor affecting year-to-year
climate changes globally, and may dramatically affect rainfall patterns around the world. In the education of climate
scientists, it is critical that they comprehend the complex concepts that underpin ENSO. This paper discusses an online
practical (tool) developed to teach undergraduate students the fundamental principles that underpin not only the average
state of the ocean, but also ocean variability associated with ENSO. Results from two formal student evaluations of this
practical, one by third year physical geography students and the other by second year physics students, will be presented
and discussed.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Other education |
| Research Field: | Other education not elsewhere classified |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
| Objective Group: | Understanding climate change |
| Objective Field: | Understanding climate change not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | Holbrook, NJ (Professor Neil Holbrook) |
| ID Code: | 57274 |
| Year Published: | 2003 |
| Deposited By: | Geography and Environmental Studies |
| Deposited On: | 2009-07-01 |
| Last Modified: | 2009-07-20 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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