چکیده (انگلیسی):

Providing meaningful telescope observing experiences for students who are deeply urban or
distantly rural place-bound—or even daylight time-bound—has consistently presented a
formidable challenge for astronomy educators. For nearly 2 decades, the Internet has promised
unfettered access for large numbers of students to conduct remote telescope observing, but it has
only been in recent years that the technology has become readily available. Now that this once
fanciful possibility is becoming a reality, astronomy education researchers need a guiding theory
on which to develop learning experiences. As one departure point, we propose a potential
learning progression anchored on one end with recognizing that stars visible at night have
describable locations and predictable motions, and anchored at the other with distant robotic
telescopes can be programmed to record specific astronomical data for later analysis.