Preliminary Results from a Study of the Effectiveness of Active Learning Techniques and Virtual Environments on Course Delivery
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https://doi.org/10.56198/tfd0rs53Keywords:
Virtual worlds, Active learning, Flipped classroom, Online educationAbstract
This paper summarizes the interim findings of what has become a 4-year study to determine the efficacy of using active learning within a standardized first course in computer science using a blended delivery format. The faculty implementing this approach to course delivery rely heavily on collaborative problem solving. Since the approach uses active, blended and collaborative techniques and we whimsically refer to it as the ABC method. Since collaboration is considered to be of great importance, the effect of introducing a virtual world into the ABC methodology to enhance and extend collaboration is also under study. We see some promising results emerging.
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