006+Namsong


 * ID: 006

Title:** Virtual Campus Tour

Sirichoke Namsong, Department of Educational Technology, Hawaii, USA, namsong@hawaii.edu
 * Presenter:**

Virtual Campus Tour is an instructional design project, which delivers video campus tours for international students while they are still in their home countries. These students should be able to know the universities, facilities, and services before their arrival on campus. Two pilot episodes of the Virtual Campus Tour have been designed and delivered using Blogger, YouTube, Google Docs, and Google Form, to allow new international students to take virtual campus tours of the University of Hawaii at Manoa at their convenience. After the One-on-One testings have been reviewed and revised, one significant change is the tool used to prepare the test questions and survey. As the free version of SurveyMonkey makes it difficult for module navigation, Google Form is used instead. However, Google Form has a few drawbacks and researchers who are seeking for free online survey tools should consider. Attitudes of international students toward the Virtual Campus Tours, and their difficulties viewing the blogs from different distant locations have been discussed and analyzed. Most participants found the module effective, and indicated an interest for more episodes. However, Internet connectivity issues from various locations caused some participants to have difficulty viewing the module.
 * Abstract**:

ETEC Master's Paper ([|download pdf])
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