Hi Elizabeth, 2010/3/22, Elizabeth Lowry <[email protected]>: > If the full-3D versions of the learning environments in the study lead to > the greatest improvements in quiz scores, it'll indicate that the greater > amount of effort required to build such environments pays off in better > learning. [...] > Is anyone on this list in a position to run a user study in OpenSim with 30 > or more participants by mid to late April?
Although I'm not in a position right now to run this user study, I think this is a very interesting and important area to research. Having just completed my PhD (Information Science), and with my memory still fresh about the design of such user studies, I hope I can offer one suggestion: that the effects and benefits of the spatial environment may be (more) observable in areas other than post-test quiz scores: areas such as learner motivation, communications patterns among students, amount of spatial navigation or camera control invoked by students in each condition, or other learner behavior might be valuable to observe. Good luck! -nlin _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
