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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1642-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2012.120