Group awareness tools showing peer presence, peer activities, or multiple artifacts are integrated in many educational VRLs, but performance and teacher-presence indicators are never standalone¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Peer presence is visible in 10 reviewed labs, peer activities in 9, and 20 labs use multiple group-awareness artifacts. → Kurtz 2025 q2 i? Teacher presence, group performance, and individual performance indicators are never implemented as standalone group awareness tools in the reviewed VRLs. → Kurtz 2025

Evidence¶

Kurtz 2025¶

Kurtz, M., Benabbou, A., Pons, C., & Broisin, J. (2025). Collaboration in virtual and remote laboratories for education: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-025-09454-7

q2 · i? · review · r3

Descriptive coding of group awareness functionality across the 62 reviewed publications, as reported in the review's Collaboration results section. It found "peer presence is visible in 10 laboratories" and multiple artifacts in 20 labs; examples include scoreboards and presence avatars.

"Specifically, peer presence is visible in 10 laboratories, peer activi- ties are visible in 9 laboratories, and 20 laboratories integrate multiple artifacts for group"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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