Virtual Telescopes in Education

Authors

  • Susan Hoban University of Maryland Baltimore County, GEST Center
  • Marie desJardins University of Maryland Baltimore County, GEST Center
  • Nora Farrell University of Maryland Baltimore County, GEST Center
  • Priyang Rathod University of Maryland Baltimore County, GEST Center
  • Joel Sachs University of Maryland Baltimore County, GEST Center
  • Suryakant Sansare University of Maryland Baltimore County, GEST Center
  • Yelena Yesha University of Maryland Baltimore County, GEST Center
  • John Keating Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
  • Bart Busschots Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
  • Johanna Means Department of Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
  • Gilbert Clark President, Telescopes In Education Foundation, 1160 E. Calaveras St., Altadena, CA 91001, USA
  • Louuis Mayo Raytheon ITSS, Code 630, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
  • Willard Smith Center of Excellence in Information Systems, Tennessee State University, 330 10th Avenue N., Nashville, TN 37203-3401, USA

Abstract

Virtual Telescopes in Education is providing the services required to operate a virtual observatory comprising distributed telescopes, including an interactive, constraint-based scheduling service, data and resource archive, proposal preparation and review environment, and a VTIE Journal. A major goal of VTIE is to elicit from learners questions about the nature of celestial objects and the physical processes that give rise to the spectacular imagery that catches their imaginations. Generation of constrained science questions will assist learners in the science process. To achieve interoperability with other NSDL resources, our approach follows the Open Archives Initiative and the W3C Semantic Web activity.

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Published

2006-02-01