Dynamic Digital Text in STEM Education

August 6, 2013

New digital presentation, interaction, and navigation techniques promise to engage students more deeply and dynamically with science. Sadhana Puntambekar and colleagues in Finland are working toward cloud-based digital science content to allow anytime, anywhere access to an extensive set of topics for school- and college-level STEM education. This project represents a first attempt to systematically evaluate the utility of dynamic digital texts founded on concept map-based organizations of content knowledge, across multiple content domains, learner levels, and cultures. Puntambekar says there is a potentially transformative payoff to this work in that it can lay an excellent technological foundation for dynamic digital texts of the future. More information is available here.