Title :
Work in progress: Examination of student experiences in immersive vs. traditional group projects
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Maryland Univ. Coll., Adelphi, MD, USA
Abstract :
Group projects are essential for graduate level programs. This paper presents a study on student experiences from immersive and traditional online group projects. The study revealed that student engagement in group projects is a distinguishable construct worth to be studied further. Review of conducted research on student engagement revealed also that there is a need of a reliable and valid measure of student engagement in group projects.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; human factors; project management; graduate level programs; immersive online group projects; student engagement; student experiences; traditional online group projects; Decision support systems; immersive group projects; reliability and internal consistency of test scores; student engagement; virtual worlds;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2012
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1353-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0190-5848
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2012.6462336
