Heather Zimmerman

Assistant Professor in the College of Education

Huck Affiliations

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Learning Water Science Interaction Augmented Reality Mobile Computing Experience Life Cycle Museums Application Programs Museum Conversation Video Learning Process Education Time Community Visualization Learning Environment Resources Everyday Experience Teacher Student Workplace Emotion

Most Recent Publications

Serendipitous Collective Creativity at Family Making Programs in Public Libraries

Soo Kim, Heather Zimmerman, 2023, Thinking Skills and Creativity on p. 101283

Using youths’ personal DNA data in science camps: Fostering genetics learning and socio-emotional attitudes toward science with design-based research

Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Jennifer L. Weible, Elizabeth A. Wright, Carmen Vanderhoof, Nina G. Jablonski, 2022, Science Education on p. 767-796

Families’ engagement in making activities related to aerospace engineering: designing for parents as learning partners in pop-up makerspaces

Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Katharine Ellen Grills, Zachary McKinley, Soo Hyeon Kim, 2022, Information and Learning Science on p. 154-178

Supporting children’s place-based observations and explanations using collaboration scripts while learning-on-the-move outdoors

Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Susan M. Land, 2022, International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning on p. 107-134

Place-based learning processes in a family science workshop: Discussion prompts supporting families sensemaking and rural science connections using a community water model

Lucy McClain, Yu-Chen Chiu, Heather T. Zimmerman, 2022, Science Education on p. 645-673

Place-based mobile AR: Technological development of mobile apps to support families to see and discuss science outdoors

S Land, Heather Zimmerman, Lillyanna Faimon, LR McClain, N Rossi, B Masters, B Kozlek, 2022,

Using immersive augmented reality to guide families’ observations

L McClain, Heather Zimmerman, S Land, Lillyanna Faimon, S Bowles, CA Keith, others, 2022,

Shifts of epistemic agency between children and parents during making at museum-based makerspace

Yong Jung, Devon Whalen, Heather Zimmerman, 2022, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement on p. 1--17

Place-based mobile AR: Technological development of mobile apps to support families to see and discuss science outdoors

Susan M. Land, Heather Zimmerman, Lillyanna Faimon, Yu Chen Chiu, Lucy McClain, Nicholas Rossi, Bart Masters, Brad Kozlek, 2022, on p. 371-374

Mobile Augmented Reality Supporting Community-based Learning: Families' Exploration of Land-Water Interactions

Heather Zimmerman, Susan M. Land, Lillyanna Faimon, Yu Chen Chiu, 2022, on p. 345-352

Most-Cited Papers

Personalized workplace learning: An exploratory study on digital badging within a teacher professional development program

Chris Gamrat, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Jaclyn Dudek, K Peck, 2014, British Journal of Educational Technology on p. 1136-1148

Socio-technical dimensions of an outdoor mobile learning environment: a three-phase design-based research investigation

Susan M. Land, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, 2015, AV communication review on p. 229-255

Facilitating Place-Based Learning in Outdoor Informal Environments with Mobile Computers

Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Susan M. Land, 2014, TechTrends on p. 77-83

Learning in and about rural places: Connections and tensions between students’ everyday experiences and environmental quality issues in their community

Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Jennifer L. Weible, 2017, Cultural Studies of Science Education on p. 7-31

Tree Investigators: Supporting families' scientific talk in an arboretum with mobile computers

Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Susan M. Land, Lucy R. McClain, Michael R. Mohney, Gi Woong Choi, Fariha H. Salman, 2015, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement on p. 44-67

Using augmented reality to support children’s situational interest and science learning during context-sensitive informal mobile learning

Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Susan Land, Yong Jung, 2016, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing on p. 101-119

Prior Experiences Shaping Family Science Conversations at a Nature Center

Lucy R. McClain, Heather Zimmerman, 2014, Science Education on p. 1009-1032

A Methodological Case Study with Mobile Eye-Tracking of Child Interaction in a Science Museum

Yong Ju Jung, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, 2018, TechTrends on p. 509-517

Understanding How Families Use Magnifiers During Nature Center Walks

Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Lucy Richardson McClain, Michele Crowl, 2013, Research in Science Education on p. 1917-1938

Where Young People See Science: Everyday activities connected to science

Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Philip Bell, 2014, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement on p. 25-53