Share Paper: Online Orientation in Virtual Reality for Graduate Students: A Discussion of the Preliminary Results

  1. Fan Yu, The School of Information Science and Learning Technology, The University of Missouri, United States
  2. Xinhao Xu, The School of Information Science and Learning Technology, The University of Missouri, United States
  3. Jhon Bueno Vesga, The School of Information Science and Learning Technology, The University of Missouri, United States
  4. Hao He, The School of Information Science and Learning Technology, The University of Missouri, United States
  5. Gayathri Sadanala, The School of Information Science and Learning Technology, The University of Missouri, United States
  6. Shangman Li, The School of Information Science and Learning Technology, The University of Missouri, United States
Thursday, June 25 4:00-4:15 PM Room 6

Abstract: In this short paper, we introduce an ongoing research that focuses on whether some new online graduate students acquired knowledge effectively by attending a desktop 3D Virtual Reality Online Orientation (VRO2). We collected quantitative data from participants through pre surveys, post surveys, and performance tests. Meanwhile, qualitative data are from interviews. This brief paper displayed the preliminary results on the analysis of performance tests and the feedback of the interviews. There is preliminary evidence shows new online graduate students actually required orientation information from the VRO2.