Students’ opinions about virtual science and technology museum and educational interface agent

The objective of this study is to analyze the opinions of the sixth year primary school students about the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute Virtual Science and Technology Museum and Battery Friend Educational Interface Agent developed by the researcher. In this descriptive qualitative research the study group is composed of the 6th year students at 2010-2011 education and teaching season at a Primary School located in Kırşehir city center. This study showed that the students those utilized The Energy Park Virtual Museum with or without the support of educational interface agent both they liked The Energy Park Virtual Museum, planned to utilize again and thought that utilizing these kinds of environments in learning process will affect their successes positively. Moreover it is found that most of the students those utilized educational interface agent supported environment expressed their positive opinions regarding utilization of educational interface agents in learning environments.

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Virtual science and technology museum ,

Educational Interface agent ,

Learning companion ,