Improvement of mental rotation ability using blender 3-D

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 4th International Conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 60-66

  Kadam, Kapil ^a   Sahasrabudhe, Sameer ^a   Iyer, Sridhar ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Blender; engineering students; mental rotation; spatial ability

Indexed keywords

BLENDER; COMPUTER BASED TRAINING; EFFECT SIZE; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING; MENTAL ROTATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ABILITIES; TRAINING MODULES;

BLENDING; ROTATION; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84867936898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2012.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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