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Neurophysiological Evaluation of Students’ Experience during Remote and Face-to-Face Lessons: A Case Study at Driving School

Nowadays, fostered by technological progress and contextual circumstances such as the economic crisis and pandemic restrictions, remote education is experiencing growing deployment. However, this growth has generated widespread doubts about the actual effectiveness of remote/online learning compared...

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Autores principales: Simonetti, Ilaria, Tamborra, Luca, Giorgi, Andrea, Ronca, Vincenzo, Vozzi, Alessia, Aricò, Pietro, Borghini, Gianluca, Sciaraffa, Nicolina, Trettel, Arianna, Babiloni, Fabio, Picardi, Manuel, Di Flumeri, Gianluca
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9856302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36672076
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010095
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author Simonetti, Ilaria
Tamborra, Luca
Giorgi, Andrea
Ronca, Vincenzo
Vozzi, Alessia
Aricò, Pietro
Borghini, Gianluca
Sciaraffa, Nicolina
Trettel, Arianna
Babiloni, Fabio
Picardi, Manuel
Di Flumeri, Gianluca
author_facet Simonetti, Ilaria
Tamborra, Luca
Giorgi, Andrea
Ronca, Vincenzo
Vozzi, Alessia
Aricò, Pietro
Borghini, Gianluca
Sciaraffa, Nicolina
Trettel, Arianna
Babiloni, Fabio
Picardi, Manuel
Di Flumeri, Gianluca
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description Nowadays, fostered by technological progress and contextual circumstances such as the economic crisis and pandemic restrictions, remote education is experiencing growing deployment. However, this growth has generated widespread doubts about the actual effectiveness of remote/online learning compared to face-to-face education. The present study was aimed at comparing face-to-face and remote education through a multimodal neurophysiological approach. It involved forty students at a driving school, in a real classroom, experiencing both modalities. Wearable devices to measure brain, ocular, heart and sweating activities were employed in order to analyse the students’ neurophysiological signals to obtain insights into the cognitive dimension. In particular, four parameters were considered: the Eye Blink Rate, the Heart Rate and its Variability and the Skin Conductance Level. In addition, the students filled out a questionnaire at the end to obtain an explicit measure of their learning performance. Data analysis showed higher cognitive activity, in terms of attention and mental engagement, in the in-presence setting compared to the remote modality. On the other hand, students in the remote class felt more stressed, particularly during the first part of the lesson. The analysis of questionnaires demonstrated worse performance for the remote group, thus suggesting a common “disengaging” behaviour when attending remote courses, thus undermining their effectiveness. In conclusion, neuroscientific tools could help to obtain insights into mental concerns, often “blind”, such as decreasing attention and increasing stress, as well as their dynamics during the lesson itself, thus allowing the definition of proper countermeasures to emerging issues when introducing new practices into daily life.
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spelling pubmed-98563022023-01-21 Neurophysiological Evaluation of Students’ Experience during Remote and Face-to-Face Lessons: A Case Study at Driving School Simonetti, Ilaria Tamborra, Luca Giorgi, Andrea Ronca, Vincenzo Vozzi, Alessia Aricò, Pietro Borghini, Gianluca Sciaraffa, Nicolina Trettel, Arianna Babiloni, Fabio Picardi, Manuel Di Flumeri, Gianluca Brain Sci Article Nowadays, fostered by technological progress and contextual circumstances such as the economic crisis and pandemic restrictions, remote education is experiencing growing deployment. However, this growth has generated widespread doubts about the actual effectiveness of remote/online learning compared to face-to-face education. The present study was aimed at comparing face-to-face and remote education through a multimodal neurophysiological approach. It involved forty students at a driving school, in a real classroom, experiencing both modalities. Wearable devices to measure brain, ocular, heart and sweating activities were employed in order to analyse the students’ neurophysiological signals to obtain insights into the cognitive dimension. In particular, four parameters were considered: the Eye Blink Rate, the Heart Rate and its Variability and the Skin Conductance Level. In addition, the students filled out a questionnaire at the end to obtain an explicit measure of their learning performance. Data analysis showed higher cognitive activity, in terms of attention and mental engagement, in the in-presence setting compared to the remote modality. On the other hand, students in the remote class felt more stressed, particularly during the first part of the lesson. The analysis of questionnaires demonstrated worse performance for the remote group, thus suggesting a common “disengaging” behaviour when attending remote courses, thus undermining their effectiveness. In conclusion, neuroscientific tools could help to obtain insights into mental concerns, often “blind”, such as decreasing attention and increasing stress, as well as their dynamics during the lesson itself, thus allowing the definition of proper countermeasures to emerging issues when introducing new practices into daily life. MDPI 2023-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9856302/ /pubmed/36672076 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010095 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Simonetti, Ilaria
Tamborra, Luca
Giorgi, Andrea
Ronca, Vincenzo
Vozzi, Alessia
Aricò, Pietro
Borghini, Gianluca
Sciaraffa, Nicolina
Trettel, Arianna
Babiloni, Fabio
Picardi, Manuel
Di Flumeri, Gianluca
Neurophysiological Evaluation of Students’ Experience during Remote and Face-to-Face Lessons: A Case Study at Driving School
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title_full_unstemmed Neurophysiological Evaluation of Students’ Experience during Remote and Face-to-Face Lessons: A Case Study at Driving School
title_short Neurophysiological Evaluation of Students’ Experience during Remote and Face-to-Face Lessons: A Case Study at Driving School
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9856302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36672076
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010095
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