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Enhancing Virtual Labs Usage in CollegesAuthors: Ravi Shankar Pillutla,Venkatesh Choppella,Lalit Mohan Sanagavarapu,Mrudhvika Dammaraju,Padmapriya Raman Conference: THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATION (T4E) 2019 (T4E-2019 2019) Location Goa University, Goa Date: 2019-12-09 Report no: IIIT/TR/2019/113 AbstractVirtual Labs is an MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development, India) initiative in which over 1100 virtual experiments are freely available to engineering students across India and the rest of the globe to access and learn. Until the beginning of 2018, the lab usages by students were mostly in the push mode during the workshops. The average usage per workshop was significantly low, at about 8 usages per student. Interventions were proposed in the process to improve the usage by enhancing ’Arousal’ and ’Choices’ as students’ motivation. Qualitative observation of the results shows that students conducted more than the requested 15 experiments, along with the expectation of instant appreciation and recognition. This change in the process to create extrinsic motivation increased the usage per student from 8.62 to 19.7. self-reported motivation levels of students after doing the experiments improved from 5 to 8, 10 being the highest on the scale. There was a reduced variability represented by the coefficient of variation changing from 51.9% to 21.39%. Full paper: pdf Centre for Search and Information Extraction Lab |
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