The IAU Office of Astronomy for Development is excited to present to you, and invites you to participate in, a peer review platform for astronomy educational activities developed in partnership with UNAWE (http://www.unawe.org/) and LCOGT (http://lcogt.net/). This project is led by the co-Chairs of the OAD’s Task Force 2 (Children and Schools, https://www.astro4dev.org/task-forces/children-and-schools/) Pedro Russo […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
A Peer-reviewed Open-access Astronomy Education Activities Platform 29 November 2013 A new platform for high-quality, peer-reviewed astronomy education activities has been launched by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development at the ESA/Galileo Teachers Training Program Workshop, Leiden, Netherlands. astroEDU is a platform that allows educators to discover, review, distribute, improve and remix astronomy education […]
Donate now to this project! http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/projects/telescopes-to-tanzania.html Background: Telescopes to Tanzania (TtoT), which the OAD is contributing towards, is a project under the aegis of Astronomers Without Borders (AWB, http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/). Since 2010, Universe Awareness (UNAWE, www.unawe.org) and Telescopes to Tanzania have collaborated on bringing astronomy-based science education to Tanzania. This collaboration has already produced many outcomes, among […]
You can download here a published paper presented at the Discover the Cosmos / GHOU Conference in Volos, Greece on August 2nd-4th 2013 describing the activities of Telescope to Tanzania.