ViewPoint: Student Experiences with Technology Supporting Role-Based Educational Simulations
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Rebecca M. Quintana, Chris Quintana, Jacob Fortman, Elisabeth R. GerberAuthors Info & Claims
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We examine the experience of students who used ViewPoint to participate in a technology-supported, role-based simulation in a large university course, where graduate students designed and built a simulation about the college admissions process for undergraduate students. We focus on the user experience with ViewPoint — a web application to author, structure, and manage role-based simulations. Users noted four ways that ViewPoint supported their experience: it provided convenient and equitable access to resources, facilitated communication among roles, created focus through its self-contained environment, and mirrored real-world tasks through its interface. Users noted two dimensions to consider for future support of role-based simulations: maintaining the conceit of the simulation narrative and creating awareness of auxiliary information streams.
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