Employing Virtual Collaborative Exchanges to Expand Global Awareness

Poindexter, Sandra; Amtmann, Ray; Ferrarini, Tawni Hunt

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-7612-3_22

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“…10 Furthermore, as noted by Poindexter, Heck and Ferrarini, many students who requested advanced features such as interactive practice tests did not actually use them. 11 Despite the fact that the majority of students in this study did not rate more advanced features as "very useful," it would be incorrect to automatically conclude that more advanced website features have no place. Studies have shown that intermediate and advanced website features can be very useful and effective when properly integrated in the course and emphasized by the instructor.…”

Section: Proceedings Of the 2003 American Society For Engineering Edumentioning

confidence: 77%

“…Whereas paper copies of administrative documents were quickly lost or buried in folders, electronic copies could be accessed at will and were reviewed weekly by most students. 7 Schweitzer and Reed found that for administrative documents (assignments, syllabi, etc.) engineering students typically preferred to receive them in electronic rather than paper form.…”

Section: Proceedings Of the 2003 American Society For Engineering Edumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Studies have shown that intermediate and advanced website features can be very useful and effective when properly integrated in the course and emphasized by the instructor. 12,13,14 Instead, individual instructors should carefully consider more advanced features in terms of the cost in time, effort, and resources required versus the benefit of perhaps reaching a small number of students such as introverted self-learners who might use and gain significantly from such features.…”

Section: Proceedings Of the 2003 American Society For Engineering Edumentioning

confidence: 99%

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Course Websites: Are You Giving Your Students What They Want?

Braddom¹,

Campbell²,

Floersheim³

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2003 Annual Conference Proceedings

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A year-long study of students and faculty members in the engineering program at the United States Military Academy in the 2002 spring and fall academic terms revealed a surprising gap between what the creators of course web content perceived as most useful for students and what the students actually desired or used from various course websites. Students from eleven mechanical engineering courses were surveyed over two academic terms to obtain feedback on their actual usage of the course websites. This information was compared to survey data from faculty members who develop and maintain course web-sites in order to evaluate discrepancies. The results indicate that most students typically used the basic features from supplemental course websites for test preparation and administrative information and did not frequently use more advanced website features such as online tutorials and quizzes. Our faculty members tended to underestimate the usefulness of basic website functions such as homework solutions and syllabi.

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Section: Proceedings Of the 2003 American Society For Engineering Edumentioning

confidence: 77%

Section: Proceedings Of the 2003 American Society For Engineering Edumentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Proceedings Of the 2003 American Society For Engineering Edumentioning

confidence: 99%

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