Motivation through Collaborative Virtual Reality Environments Earthwork Exercises
Lacey Duckworth, Tulio Sulbaran, Andrew Strelzoff, Randy Rapp · 2011
Finding means to motivate students to learn is rather difficult as each student has different needs when it comes to getting motivated. In most classroom settings, the only motivation for a student is the letter grade based on the performance of pen and paper pedagogy, which is given at the end of the school year. While this is enough motivation for some students, other students need more of a hands-on method for learning. Through the use of an emerging technology, Collaborative Virtual Reality Environments, students are provided with another method of motivation where they see immediate results of their actions and the pen and paper pedagogy can be reinforced. This paper discusses measuring the motivation of an excavation training simulator implemented for Purdue University.