• DocumentCode
    2964291
  • Title

    Visualizing Learner Activities with a Virtual Learning Environment: Experiences from an In Situ Test with Primary School Children

  • Author

    Eskildsen, Søren ; Rodil, Kasper ; Rehm, Matthias

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Archit., Design, & Media Technol., Aalborg Univ., Aalborg, Denmark
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-6 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    660
  • Lastpage
    661
  • Abstract
    This paper presents how to gain insights into children´s navigation of an interactive virtual learning environment and how that would benefit their educators. A prototype for logging user information as quantifiable data has been developed and deployed in an in-situ evaluation of the system. The system collects a hidden corpus of data, which is visualized in order to assess if and how the interaction with the system reflects on the learning gains of the individual learners.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; virtual reality; in-situ evaluation; information visualization; interactive virtual learning environment; learner activity visualization; learning gains; user information logging; Animals; Data visualization; Educational institutions; Media; Navigation; Prototypes; Trajectory; in-situ evaluation; information visualization; virtual learning environment;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1642-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICALT.2012.120
  • Filename
    6268205