Paper Info
Title
A Virtual Environment To Support Classroom Face-To-Face Teaching Of Engineering Courses
Abstract
The objective of our study is to answer three questions: a) How to build a low cost online teaching tool to support face-to-face classrooms of introductory engineering disciplines? b) What is the effectiveness of the use of virtual environment in promoting learning? c) Does the number of accesses by the students onto the virtual environment increases their grades and reduces their failure in introductory engineering disciplines? The online teaching tool was developed in Moodle environment, being composed by three components for each discipline: a) video lectures, b) video lessons explaining how to solve proposed exercises, c) a list of unsolved exercises. To evaluate the effectiveness of the virtual environment we collected data during JanDec/2016, amongst engineer students. The main predictor variable, the number of access to the online support tool, was firstly evaluated in univariate analysis. Multiple linear regression was used to assess how the outcome of "final grade" were influenced by all predictors variables together, in a multivariate way. The number of accesses by the students onto the virtual environment increases their grades and reduces their failure in introductory engineering disciplines, especially for General Chemistry, Differential Calculus, Physics Electricity and Algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.5220/0006358904990504
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SUPPORTED EDUCATION (CSEDU), VOL 1
Keywords
Field
DocType
Online Tool, Higher Education, Computer Assisted Learning
Virtual machine,Computer science,Face-to-face,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ana Paula Ladeira101.35
Juliana Capanema Ferreira Mendonca200.34
Osmar Ventura Gomes300.68
Celso Peixoto Garcia400.34
Bráulio Roberto Gonçalves Marinho Couto513.05