A case study to track teacher gestures and performance in a virtual learning environment

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 16-20-March-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages 420-421

  Barmaki, Roghayeh ^a   Hughes, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture; Grounding; Professional Development; Teacher Preparation; Virtual Learning Environment

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC GROUNDING; STUDENTS; VIDEO RECORDING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLASSROOM INTERACTION; GESTURE; INTER-PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS; NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; TEACHER PRACTICES; TEACHER PREPARATION; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 84955583813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2723576.2723650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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