Poster: DDL-Student Attentiveness in a 3D Educational Virtual Reality Online Orientation

• In Event: Gallery Walk Showcase
  In Showcase Session: Gallery 02 - Emerging Technologies in Distance Learning

Short Description

For online students, it is challenging to be aware of resources available to them, expectations in academia, or to be familiar with the staff and students without any information sessions. Therefore, online orientation is crucial to distance learners to be successful as online students. The purpose of our study was to investigate the importance of learner’s attention to the instructional details within the online orientation. An educational desktop 3D virtual reality (VR) world orientation was created based on cognitivism learning theory and behaviorism. We observed the behaviors of new online students over an academic year and utilized a mixed-method approach for acquiring the data and analysis. Online students (N=56) participated in an hour and a half testing session with a pre-test and a post-test survey along with a handout to fill. Results show that the learner’s attentiveness to details within the 3D VR world supports the success of the learner.

Authors

• Presenter: Gayathri Sadanala, University of Missouri, Columbia

• Presenter: Xinhao Xu, University of Missouri

• Presenter: Hao He, University of Missouri Columbia

• Presenter: Jhon Alexander Bueno Vesga, University of Missouri-Columbia

• Presenter: Shangman Li, University of Missouri-Columbia