Learning and engagement with an online laboratory for environmental monitoring education

IF 2 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

European Journal of Engineering Education Pub Date : 2023-02-11 DOI:10.1080/03043797.2023.2175199

Debarati Basu, V. Lohani

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In this study, we investigated students’ learning outcomes and engagement with an online laboratory called Online Watershed Learning System (OWLS) employed within a classroom and explored the relationship between learning outcome and engagement. The OWLS is the web interface for a real-time environmental monitoring system and integrates a user-tracking system to track students’ interactions. We conducted a pre-experimental quantitative research study in a third-year Civil and Environmental Engineering course. We assessed students’ performance and perception of their learning, behavioural engagement, and their perception of engagement attributes in the context of environmental monitoring. Examples of key findings include: OWLS is effective in helping attain learning outcomes related to environmental monitoring, the order of assessment questions can impact students’ performance but not their engagement, and students’ performance is inversely related to the number of clicks they used to complete an OWLS-based task. The study informs the effective design of online laboratories and leverages online laboratories-based education.

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学习和参与环境监测教育的在线实验室

在本研究中，我们调查了学生在课堂内使用在线分水岭学习系统(owl)的在线实验室的学习成果和参与度，并探讨了学习成果和参与度之间的关系。owl是一个实时环境监测系统的网络界面，并集成了一个用户跟踪系统来跟踪学生的互动。我们在三年级的土木与环境工程课程中进行了实验前定量研究。在环境监测的背景下，我们评估了学生的表现和对他们的学习、行为参与以及对参与属性的感知。主要发现的例子包括:owl在帮助获得与环境监测相关的学习成果方面是有效的，评估问题的顺序可以影响学生的表现，但不会影响他们的参与度，学生的表现与他们用于完成基于owl的任务的点击次数成反比。该研究为在线实验室的有效设计和利用在线实验室为基础的教育提供了信息。

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European Journal of Engineering Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

7.30

自引率

13.00%

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期刊介绍： European Journal of Engineering Education is published six times a year in print and electronic editions and provides an essential forum for dialogue between researchers and specialists in the field of engineering education, at European and worldwide levels. European Journal of Engineering Education is the Official Journal of SEFI, the Socièté Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (the European Society for Engineering Education). SEFI is a non-governmental organization whose aims are to develop information about engineering education, to improve communication and exchange between professors, researchers and students and to promote cooperation between the various institutions concerned with engineering education.