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Nathan Williams – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: Despite access to nature-based recreation, many college students do not take advantage of these experiences to improve their mental and physical health. Virtual reality experiences provide a potential pathway to motivate this population to recreate outdoors, but research is needed to determine whether virtual recreation can lead to…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Computer Simulation, Physical Environment
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Muhammad Safuan Abdul Latip; Siti Nur Nadhirah Abdul Latip; Masliana Tamrin; Faizatul Akmal Rahim – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The study aims to explore factors that influence students' academic performance in the context of physical ergonomics and assess the mediating effect of motivation between lighting, noise, temperature, chair design and students' performance from the student's perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The research was categorised as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Human Factors Engineering, Lighting
J. B. Oleet – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This survey study, N = 44 university students, from an urban campus, measured post-pandemic digital divide perceptions, focusing on motivational, physical, skills, and usage access to ICTs through the lens of van Dijk's resources and appropriation theory. Statistical tests, including one-sample t-tests, correlation analyses, one-way and repeated…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Urban Schools, COVID-19
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Jingru Zhang; Wan Ahmad Jaafar Wan Yahaya; Mageswaran Sanmugam; Yuting Dai – SAGE Open, 2025
The potential of educational augmented reality systems to improve students' learning performance, motivation, and cognitive load has been demonstrated by recent studies. To help students learn the design history material, this study suggests an AR-integrated learning application strategy. In this study, we use Modernism as the theoretical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Physical Environment, Simulated Environment
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Laurens-Arredondo, Luis – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The rushed introduction of online education for universities because of the current covid-19 health crisis, has started to affect the quality of education for millions of students around the world. This pandemic has emphasized the need to improve the teaching process through the use of innovating educational tools, such as mobile augmented reality…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Simulated Environment, Synthesis, Information Technology
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Ahmed, Nazeema; Kloot, Bruce; Collier-Reed, Brandon I. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
The retention of students to graduation is a concern for most higher education institutions. This article seeks to understand why engineering and built environment students fail to continue their degree programmes despite being academically eligible to do so. The sample comprised 275 students registered between 2006 and 2011 in a faculty of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Engineering, Engineering Education
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LaCaille, Lara J.; Dauner, Kim Nichols; Krambeer, Rachel J.; Pedersen, Jon – Journal of American College Health, 2011
Objective: The goal of this study was to identify factors that college students perceived as contributing to healthy and unhealthy eating patterns, physical activity (PA) levels, and weight change. Participants: Forty-nine 18- to 22-year-old students at a midwestern university participated. Methods: Six focus groups (3 with each gender) were…
Descriptors: College Students, Physical Activities, Focus Groups, Physical Environment
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Lammers, William J.; Smith, Shelia M. – Teaching of Psychology, 2008
We examined faculty and student perspectives on variables relating to the instructor, student, and physical environment that affect student learning. Tenured faculty members and university students enrolled in upper level courses completed a questionnaire evaluating their perceptions of variables important to student learning. Overall, faculty and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Physical Environment, Student Characteristics, College Faculty
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers