The Virtual Reality Classroom: A Prototype Environment to Measure Student Engagement through Eye Tracking and Portable Electroencephalography Technology

• In Event: Gallery Walk Showcase
  In Showcase Session: Gallery 20 - Design and Development Showcases

Short Description

Student engagement is often considered the gateway between instruction and learning, yet reliably measuring engagement remains a challenge. To overcome this challenge, we have developed an innovative, virtual reality (VR) system, which mimics a real classroom to investigate student engagement while maintaining full experimental control. In this session, we showcase the design and development process of our system and demonstrate how we utilize state-of-the-art eye tracking and portable electroencephalography technology to examine student engagement across varying instructional content and pedagogical strategies.

Authors

• Presenter: Noah Glaser, Old Dominion University

• Contributor: Ido Davidesco, University of Connecticut

• Contributor: Elana Zion Golumbic, Bar Ilan University

• Contributor: Kenneth Thompson, University of Connecticut