scholarly journals 3D Interactive Learning Environment as a Tool for Knowledge Transfer and Retention

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7916
Author(s):  
Martin Krajčovič ◽  
Gabriela Gabajová ◽  
Marián Matys ◽  
Patrik Grznár ◽  
Ľuboslav Dulina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Conventional Method ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Training Design ◽  
Interactive Learning Environment ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Interactive Training ◽  
Transfer And Retention

The article deals with the design of virtual reality (VR) interactive training as a teaching method and its effect on knowledge transfer and retention of students. The first part presents the methodology of the VR interactive training design. The second part utilizes the created interactive training for a case study to evaluate its effect on the teaching process and to examine the potential of VR interactive training as a sustainable teaching method. The study took place at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina. Volunteers were divided into two groups. The first group used VR interactive training as a teaching method, while the second group used the conventional method. Both groups then underwent tests. The main goal was to evaluate the effect of the VR interactive training on the teaching process in comparison to the conventional method while trying to identify the key elements of the VR interactive training design and its influence on knowledge transfer and retention in a sustainable learning environment. At the start of the case study, four hypotheses were formed, questioning the effect of interactive training on knowledge transfer and retention in the long and short term, and its overall influence on the teaching process. Obtained data were then used to evaluate these hypotheses.

Quality Assurance During Distributed Collaboration

2011 ◽  
pp. 274-289
Author(s):  
Rita M. Vick ◽  
Brent Auernheimer ◽  
Marie K. Iding ◽  
Martha E. Crosby
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Interactive Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Interactive Learning Environment ◽  
Distributed Collaboration ◽  
Dynamic Learning

This case study describes the design and delivery of a collaborative asynchronous-synchronous, graduate-level, cross-university computer science course designedto create a highly interactive learning environment that resulted in the emergenceof multiple unique virtual learning communities. The pedagogical principles of sit-uated and problem-based learning were combined in a distributed collaborativelearning context where students’cognitive and metacognitive capabilities devel-oped through the facilitative guidance of the instructors and through discoursewith and observation of other students. The course was designed to motivate stu-dents to engage in interactive learning with others and to enhance transfer ofknowledge gained through this learning experience to real-life situations. Wedescribe the challenges inherent in creating and managing this type of learningcontext as well as how we deployed ongoing formative assessment to ensure theevolution of a dynamic learning environment. The result of our efforts was aunique learning experience for students and instructors.

scholarly journals A Theoretical Perspective on the Case Study Method

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Zafer Cakmak ◽  
Ismail Hakan Akgün
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
The Subject

Ensuring that students reach the determined goals of the courses at the desired level is one of the primary goals of teaching. In order to achieve this purpose, educators use a variety of teaching strategies and methods, and teaching materials appropriate to the content and the subject of the courses in the teaching process. As a matter of fact, it is known that the methods and materials that appeal to different sense organs of the students influence the learning process positively. In addition, the use of various teaching methods, techniques and materials in the teaching process both attract students’ attention and save the lesson from boredom, which affects the learning positively. In the process of teaching students sometimes have problems using their theoretical knowledge in real life situations. In this context, various teaching methods are also used for the practicalization of theoretical knowledge in the teaching processes. The case study method is one of the effective methods to achieve this purpose, because the case study method is a teaching method that enables students to acquire the knowledge and skills to deal with the problem they are working on and to produce information-based solutions in real life situations similar to the situations they are working with. In this study, the literature related to the case study method was examined and the application of the method, its history, application types, points to be considered in the application process, advantages of using the method in the teaching process and its limitations and teaching techniques to be used with the method are explained.

scholarly journals A Case Study of Educational Games in Virtual Reality as a Teaching Method of Lean Management

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 838
Author(s):  
Martin Krajčovič ◽  
Gabriela Gabajová ◽  
Beáta Furmannová ◽  
Vladimír Vavrík ◽  
Martin Gašo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Industrial Engineering ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Lean Management ◽  
Teaching Process

(1) At present, it is important to bring the latest technologies from industrial practice into the teaching process of educational institutions, including universities. The presented case study addresses the application of educational games in virtual reality to the teaching process in a university environment. (2) The study took place at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Žilina in Žilina and consisted of two phases. In the first phase, students’ satisfaction with current teaching methods was examined. The second phase focused on an educational game in virtual reality, which introduced a non-traditional approach for teaching lean management, namely the tool 5S. (3) This game was designed by the study authors and created in the Godot game engine. The educational game was provided to students during class. After completing the game, participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire. The aim was to enable students to express their opinion on the educational game and to identify the main benefits of this approach in the teaching process. (4) In the study’s final phase, based on the acquired knowledge, the authors examined the benefits and disadvantages of virtual reality educational games for the teaching process of industrial engineering tools.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF CASE TEACHING TECHNIQUE IN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-221
Author(s):  
Manuela Tvaronavičiene ◽  
Romualdas Ginevičius
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Method ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Management Students

In the article a case study method, which is amply used at Harvard Business School in United State of America and also at European Business Schools characterized by top ratings, has been analyzed. A case study method, as teaching tool of business management students and executives, accomplishes and enriches conventional methods of teaching, such as lecturing, assigning of practical tasks, reading of specialty literature etc. Nevertheless, despite popularity of a case study method among prestigious Business Schools, various approaches to definition of a proper for teaching process case could be found, also different emphasizes on process of application of this teaching method have been put. The article deals with following issues: at first, characteristic features of case making it proper for teaching purposes have been considered; the second, detailed a case analysis’ methodic, which enabled to increase efficiency of teaching process of business management in universities, has been presented. The methodic has been drawn up having objective more expressed orientation of teaching process to application of theoretical frameworks to solving real issues in specific business situations and development of concrete business decisions and also to form skills how to predict and evaluate plausible outcomes of alternative decisions. Practical application of a case study method let to accelerate acquisition of practical skills of students and make them better prepared for searching successful business decisions.

scholarly journals Encouraging Emotional Conversations in Children With Complex Communication Needs: An Observational Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela A. Rangel-Rodríguez ◽  
Mar Badia ◽  
Sílvia Blanch
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Home Learning Environment ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Interactive Learning Environment ◽  
Complex Communication Needs ◽  
Communicative Patterns ◽  
Communication Needs

Children with complex communication needs (CCN) regularly have barriers to express and discuss emotions, and have fewer opportunities to participate in emotional conversations. The study explores and analyzes the changes after a training program focused on offering an interactive home learning environment that encouraged and modeled emotion-related conversations between a parent and a child with CCN within storybook-reading contexts. An observational design (nomothetic/follow-up/multidimensional) was used to explore and analyze the changes in the communicative interaction around emotions between mother-child. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technologies were used to provide the child access to emotion-related vocabulary. The training program resulted in the mother providing more opportunities to engage her child in emotional conversations, suggesting that when opportunities and resources to talk about emotions were promoted, the child showed more engagement in emotion-related conversations using his AAC system. The mother–child communicative patterns and behavioral relationships observed during the phases are also presented. This case study illustrates the importance of a primary communication partners’ role in facilitating emotional conversations, and the promising efficacy of a training program implemented in a storybook interactive learning environment to promote conversations about emotion-related events while encouraging children with CCN to learn, explore, express, and discuss emotions.

A Case Study on Web-based Learning Environment Evaluation in Higher Education: Learner Perspectives in a Private University in Malaysia.

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-33
Author(s):  
Zarina Che Imbi ◽  
Tse-Kian Neo ◽  
Mai Neo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Private University ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
Kirkpatrick’S Model

In the era of digital learning, multimedia-based classroom has been commonly used in higher education including Malaysian higher education institutions. A case study has been performed to evaluate web-based learning using Level 1 to 3 of Kirkpatrick's model in a multi-disciplinary course at Multimedia University, Malaysia. In this study, mixed method research was employed in which triangulation was performed from multiple sources of data collection to give deeper understanding. Students perceived that learning with multimedia was enjoyable. They were also motivated in learning and engaged through the use of web module as multimedia was perceived to motivate them and make learning fun. Students showed significant improvements in their knowledge based on the pre-test and post-test results on learning evaluation. Students were perceived to transfer the learning from web-based learning into the learning outcome. The systematic evaluation can provide the feedback that educators and institution as a whole need to improve the learning environment and programme quality. This study contributes to the research field by adding another perspective in evaluations of web-based learning. It also provides empirical evidence on student perspectives, learning and behaviour in a private university. It demonstrated that the Kirkpatrick's model is useful as an evaluation tool to be used in higher education.

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