Enhancing Virtual Labs Usage in Colleges
| Autor: | Mrudhvika Dammaraju, Priya Raman, Lalit Mohan S, Venkatesh Choppella, Ravi Shankar Pillutla |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
business.industry
Process (engineering) 05 social sciences Psychological intervention 050301 education Globe Virtual lab medicine.anatomical_structure Scale (social sciences) 0502 economics and business medicine Mathematics education Christian ministry Human resources business Qualitative observation Psychology 0503 education 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | T4E |
| DOI: | 10.1109/t4e.2019.00-31 |
| Popis: | Virtual Labs is an MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development, India) initiative in which over 1100 virtual experiments are freely available to engineering students across India and the rest of the globe to access and learn. Until the beginning of 2018, the lab usages by students were mostly in the push mode during the workshops. The average usage per workshop was significantly low, at about 8 usages per student. Interventions were proposed in the process to improve the usage by enhancing 'Arousal' and 'Choices' as students' motivation. Qualitative observation of the results shows that students conducted more than the requested 15 experiments, along with the expectation of instant appreciation and recognition. This change in the process to create extrinsic motivation increased the usage per student from 8.62 to 19.7. self-reported motivation levels of students after doing the experiments improved from 5 to 8, 10 being the highest on the scale. There was a reduced variability represented by the coefficient of variation changing from 51.9% to 21.39%. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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