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Comparing Student Experiences of Collaborative Learning in Synchronous CS1 Classes in Gather.Town vs
Abstract
We report results of a study of student experiences (anonymous survey: n=90, interviews: n=4) in a fully online, synchronous CS1 class taught during the COVID-19 pandemic. Half the class sessions were held in Zoom and half were held in Gather.Town, an online platform that supports proximity chat and spatially designated private spaces. Students expressed strong preferences for the Gather.Town class setting due to its support for peer socializing, sense of place, agency, engagement, and fluid interactions.
Publisher Link
https://dl-acm-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1145/3478431.3499383?cid=81100323202
Citation
Celine Latulipe and Amy De Jaeger. 2022. Comparing Student Experiences of Collaborative Learning in Synchronous CS1 Classes in Gather.Town vs. Zoom. In Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1 (SIGCSE 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 411–417.
Bibtext Entry
@inproceedings{10.1145/3478431.3499383,
author = {Latulipe, Celine and De Jaeger, Amy},
title = {Comparing Student Experiences of Collaborative Learning in Synchronous CS1 Classes in Gather.Town vs. Zoom},
year = {2022},
isbn = {9781450390705},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3478431.3499383},
doi = {10.1145/3478431.3499383},
abstract = {We report results of a study of student experiences (anonymous survey: n=90, interviews: n=4) in a fully online, synchronous CS1 class taught during the COVID-19 pandemic. Half the class sessions were held in Zoom and half were held in Gather.Town, an online platform that supports proximity chat and spatially designated private spaces. Students expressed strong preferences for the Gather.Town class setting due to its support for peer socializing, sense of place, agency, engagement, and fluid interactions.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1},
pages = {411–417},
numpages = {7},
keywords = {synchronous online learning, cs1, team learning, proximity chat},
location = {Providence, RI, USA},
series = {SIGCSE 2022}
}
