Authors:
Ana Paula Ladeira
1
;
Juliana Capanema Ferreira Mendonca
1
;
Osmar Ventura Gomes
1
;
Celso Peixoto Garcia
2
and
Bráulio Roberto Gonçalves Marinho Couto
3
Affiliations:
1
Centro Universitário UNA, Brazil
;
2
UNISOCIESC Educação e Tecnologia, Brazil
;
3
Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte - UniBH, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Online Tool, Higher Education, Computer Assisted Learning.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning
;
Virtual Learning Environments
Abstract:
The objective of our study is to answer three questions: a) How to build a low cost online teaching tool to
support face-to-face classrooms of introductory engineering disciplines? b) What is the effectiveness of the
use of virtual environment in promoting learning? c) Does the number of accesses by the students onto the
virtual environment increases their grades and reduces their failure in introductory engineering disciplines?
The online teaching tool was developed in Moodle environment, being composed by three components for
each discipline: a) video lectures, b) video lessons explaining how to solve proposed exercises, c) a list of
unsolved exercises. To evaluate the effectiveness of the virtual environment we collected data during Jan-
Dec/2016, amongst engineer students. The main predictor variable, the number of access to the online
support tool, was firstly evaluated in univariate analysis. Multiple linear regression was used to assess how
the outcome of “final grade
” were influenced by all predictors variables together, in a multivariate way. The
number of accesses by the students onto the virtual environment increases their grades and reduces their
failure in introductory engineering disciplines, especially for General Chemistry, Differential Calculus,
Physics Electricity and Algorithms.
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