The Need and Use of Open Educational Resources in Fisheries, Environmental Education, and Conservation

Grossman, Gary D.; Chernoff, Kirill Y.

doi:10.1002/fsh.10029

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“…Education about fishes and other aquatic organisms is also benefitting greatly from the explosion in video technology (Struthers et al. ; Grossman and Chernoff ). Easy‐to‐produce videos are being used to acquaint students with fish behavior, habitat, duties of fisheries professionals, and can serve as a digital museum record of fish species that may go extinct.…”

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Inexpensive, Underwater Filming of Rare Fishes in High Definition

Ulrich

Bonar

2020

Fisheries

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Generating public interest in fish and their biology is often challenging. Many aquatic species are cryptic and largely invisible to the public. Therefore, increasing public awareness of cryptic fishes and elevating their visibility to broad audiences requires innovation. Inexpensive technological advancements now provide fisheries biologists, managers, and researchers with means never before possible for documenting fish in their natural habitat via underwater videography. We investigated cost efficient and simple methods for capturing and creating high quality, high definition, and informative underwater videos that could be used by people with little or no previous experience in videography. We tested 1) a variety of filming equipment including cameras and camera recording settings, lenses, batteries, and memory cards; 2) active and passive camera deployment techniques; and 3) a variety of free and paid postproduction software and compared them for ease of use, expense, and quality of output. Highest quality footage, i.e., highest resolution, clearest, and most stable, was obtained using a GoPro action camera deployed underwater in a stationary position mounted to a metal base plate using a combination of stock and macro lenses, and filming in 4K resolution at 30 frames per second. Final production videos were created using Adobe Premiere Pro.

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“…Easy‐to‐produce videos are being used to acquaint students with fish behavior, habitat, duties of fisheries professionals, and can serve as a digital museum record of fish species that may go extinct. (Grossman and Chernoff ). Particularly suitable subjects are rare, cryptic aquatic organisms.…”

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Inexpensive, Underwater Filming of Rare Fishes in High Definition

Ulrich

Bonar

2020

Fisheries

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“…Education about fi shes and other aquatic organisms is also benefi tting greatly from the explosion in video technology (Struthers et al 2015 ;Grossman and Chernoff 2018 ) . Easy-to-produce videos are being used to acquaint students with fi sh behavior, habitat, duties of fi sheries professionals, and can serve as a digital museum record of fi sh species that may go extinct.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Easy-to-produce videos are being used to acquaint students with fi sh behavior, habitat, duties of fi sheries professionals, and can serve as a digital museum record of fi sh species that may go extinct. (Grossman and Chernoff 2018 ). Particularly suitable subjects are rare, cryptic aquatic organisms.…”

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confidence: 99%

Fisheries Volume 45 Number 3 March 2020

2020

Fisheries

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“…Science pedagogy has advanced from the traditional, passive learning techniques of lecturing and testing, to innovations such as multimodal learning, inquiry‐based or active learning, and the use of open educational resources (OERs; Freeman et al 2014; Wiggins et al 2017; Grossman and Simon 2018; Delaurier et al 2019). Despite this recognition, there are few university‐level exercises for life science or natural resource classes that involve active or inquiry‐based learning (Minner et al 2010; Parisky and Bouley 2013; Ellwein et al 2014; Weasel and Finkel 2016) especially via OERs (Grossman and Simon 2018; Grossman and Chernoff 2018; but see Habron and Dann 2002). In this perspective, we present four video‐based, active learning OERs for use in fisheries or freshwater/marine sciences courses.…”

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Open Educational Resource Exercises for Fisheries Classes

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Open Educational Resources (OERs) represent any form of educational resource that is available free of charge. Few OERs exist for courses in fisheries or other life science courses, and the onset of the COVID‐19 epidemic only exacerbates the need for such resources. To rectify this shortcoming, we build on earlier work (Grossman and Chernoff 2018) and present four OERs designed for fisheries classes. The OERs may be used as described or may be modified for different class levels by varying their complexity and outcomes. The OERs examine behavioral repertoires and time budgets of Arctic Grayling Thymallus arcticus, factors affecting winners and losers of intraspecific interactions in interior Dolly Varden Charr Salvelinus malma, the effects of velocity on foraging success of Brook Trout S. fontinalis, and an exploration of animal abundance and spatial distributions in a soft‐bottom habitat at 875m depth in Monterey Bay, California. We also provide a grading rubric for the first exercise that is easily modified for the other exercises. These exercises should aid fisheries instructors in a time when remote pedagogy may be a necessity.

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The Need and Use of Open Educational Resources in Fisheries, Environmental Education, and Conservation

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Inexpensive, Underwater Filming of Rare Fishes in High Definition

Inexpensive, Underwater Filming of Rare Fishes in High Definition

Fisheries Volume 45 Number 3 March 2020

Open Educational Resource Exercises for Fisheries Classes

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