TY - JOUR
T1 - A multimodal analysis of college students’ collaborative problem solving in virtual experimentation activities
T2 - a perspective of cognitive load
AU - Du, Xu
AU - Dai, Miao
AU - Tang, Hengtao
AU - Hung, Jui Long
AU - Li, Hao
AU - Zheng, Jinqiu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/8
Y1 - 2023/8
N2 - Distance education programs have become the preferred option for most higher education institutions to continue teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the effectiveness of some online courses, especially those engineering courses with experimentation activities, remains disputed. The main challenge is fostering collaborative problem solving skills for novice students as online collaboration increases their cognitive load. This research thus tapped into novice engineering students’ cognitive load to develop a more granular, multimodal view of how cognitive load influences student performance in collaborative problem solving during virtual experimentation activities. The findings of this research provided significant implications for the future design and implementation of virtual laboratories in computer science engineering education.
AB - Distance education programs have become the preferred option for most higher education institutions to continue teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the effectiveness of some online courses, especially those engineering courses with experimentation activities, remains disputed. The main challenge is fostering collaborative problem solving skills for novice students as online collaboration increases their cognitive load. This research thus tapped into novice engineering students’ cognitive load to develop a more granular, multimodal view of how cognitive load influences student performance in collaborative problem solving during virtual experimentation activities. The findings of this research provided significant implications for the future design and implementation of virtual laboratories in computer science engineering education.
KW - Cognitive load
KW - Collaborative problem solving
KW - Computer networking
KW - Online learning
KW - Virtual experimentation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127336374&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12528-022-09311-8
DO - 10.1007/s12528-022-09311-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85127336374
SN - 1042-1726
VL - 35
SP - 272
EP - 295
JO - Journal of Computing in Higher Education
JF - Journal of Computing in Higher Education
IS - 2
ER -