Introduction Project Goals
Challenges?Stakeholder participation
Stakeholder supportResearch funding
Next steps•Distribute research agenda for review: GSCA, ASTC, IMERSA.•Promote participation in ASTC
Museum Screens CoP.•Conference presentations at ASTC,
GSCA.•Workshop evaluation (Knight-
Williams Research).•NEW! GSCA Research Task Force.
•Special issue of Science Communication.
•Collaborative research funding proposals.
Setting the Agenda for Giant Screen (GS) Research: A Research to Practice Workshop
Mary L. Nucci, Ph.D., Rutgers University
In the more than 40 years since the first giant screen (GS) film, there has been no purposeful research that has examined any of the claims and assumptions about their potential impact in learning. Responding to multiple calls for research (Fraser et. al., 2012; Heimlich, Sickler & Yocco, 2010; Lantz, 2011; Schnall, Hedge & Weaver, 2012), this one-day workshop invited a diverse community of GS stakeholders and researchers to define a research agenda for how and whether GS impacts the viewing audience. Held September 18, 2013 in conjunction with the ASTC annual conference, invited participants addressed three questions in the full-day workshop:
Question 1What are the key research issues--
thematic areas, guiding topics--for GS research?
Question 2Identify 3-5 key research questions from the key topic areas defined in Question 1:
Audience, Impact, Learning, Technology, and Industry
Question 3What are the pragmatics—the nuts and
bolts that need to be considered in developing and implementing research
programs: barriers, opportunities, justifications, funding etc.?
Invited Participants
This workshop aimed to solidify the recommendations from the 1999 NSF-funded symposium, Giant Screen Films and Lifelong Learning: A One-Day Symposium (NSF/DRL #9910643) and the 2008 NSF-funded symposium, Connecting Society with Science: The Greater Potential of Giant Screen Experiences (NSF/DRL #0803987) The key goal of this workshop was to foster and engage researchers in aligned disciplines to define the key issues in giant screen research:
• Define key research questions and outline research needs.• Establish connections between research and practitioners through multiple venues
including the ASTC Museum Screens Community of Practice (CoP).• Promote the inclusion of research in every GS project.
• Disseminate results to the industry for stakeholder comment and engagement.
• Create the infrastructure for collaborative research proposals.• Develop a long-term research program.
• Disseminate results through published proceedings, online reporting and peer-reviewed publications.
• Encourage and mentor researchers in GS. • Implement and expand the research agenda.
Challenges/Next Steps
GS IndustryCinergetics LLC.Evans & SutherlandGiant Screen FilmsGSCA IMAX CorporationMacGillivray Freeman FilmsNational Geographic Cinema VenturesSK Films STEM Affiliated OrganizationsCAISEIMERSAMeehan Media ConsultingMensforth and AssociatesNew Knowledge Inc.Public VRSpace Science Institute
GS stakeholdersGSCA filmmakers, producers and
marketersSTEM community
GS exhibitors, educators and theatersSTEM educators
ASTCIMERSA
Academic researchersCognition and learning
EducationVisual studies
Science communicationMedia studies
Audiences
Academic ResearchersArizona State UniversityOregon State University
Penn StateUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of New HampshireUniversity of New Mexico University of Pittsburgh
Museums and Science CentersCalifornia Academy of Sciences
COSIDenver Museum of Nature and Science
Museum of Discovery and ScienceSt. Louis Science Center
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts
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Long term objectives