Using Remote Desktop Applications in Education

Published 1 January 2009

Dan Hutchison, Ernst Bekkering, Thomas Janicki, Kathleen M. Kelm, Paul M. Leidig

Citations9

TL;DR

The potential use of remote desktop technologies to use remote collaboration on students’ computer desktops to demonstrate skills and assist in activities when students are not able to complete work without assistance is discussed.

Abstract

Students often need help outside the traditional classroom when face to face interaction is not possible. This applies even more to students in online courses. The opportunity to obtain help from instructors is limited to class time in face to face classes, office hours in the instructor’s office, and online to the extent that instructors are willing to be available through email or other electronic communications channels. This paper discusses the potential use of remote desktop technologies to use remote collaboration on students’ computer desktops to demonstrate skills and assist in activities when students are not able to complete work without assistance. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology is used to perform a preliminary study of students’ acceptance of these technologies. Using a limited sample of 25 subjects, the data suggest that only the attraction to remote sessions as a technology may influence whether students intend to use them. Based on this limited study, students do not (yet) perceive a performance benefit for their educational work. To increase acceptance of this promising technology, instructors may need to aggressively promote its use.

Keywords

Social SciencesDecision Sciences

MIS QuarterlyUser Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1

42,458 Citations2003Venkatesh, Michael G. Morris +2 more

TAUT provides a useful tool for managers needing to assess the likelihood of success for new technology introductions and helps them understand the drivers of acceptance in order to proactively design interventions targeted at populations of users that may be less inclined to adopt and use new systems.

Decision SciencesThe Role of Innovation Characteristics and Perceived Voluntariness in the Acceptance of Information Technologies

1,652 Citations1997Ritu Agarwal, Jayesh Prasad

This paper focuses on individual's perceptions about the characteristics of the target technology as explanatory and predictive variables for acceptance behavior, and presents an empirical study examining the effects of these perceptions on two frequently used outcomes in the context of the innovation represented by the World Wide Web.

View PDF

Management ScienceMeasuring System Usage: Implications for IS Theory Testing

954 Citations1995Detmar W. Straub, Moez Limayem +1 more

Conceptual as well as methodological issues related to measuring system usage are addressed and it is suggested that system usage should be factored into self-reported system usage and computer-recorded system usage.

Personality and Social Psychology BulletinExplaining the Discrepancy between Intentions and Actions: The Case of Hypothetical Bias in Contingent Valuation

597 Citations2004Icek Ajzen, Thomas C. Brown +1 more

An experiment was designed to account for intention-behavior discrepancies by applying the theory of planned behavior to contingent valuation and produced more accurate prediction of real payment when participants were exposed to the corrective entreaty.

Computers & EducationElectronic office hours: a component of distance learning

32 Citations2001Farron Wallace, Susan Wallace

A technique to blend distance learning with traditional educational methods using Electronic Office Hours, which can connect the teacher and students outside the classroom by using existing computer mediated communication tools and techniques.

College TeachingOffice Hours—None: An E-Mail Experiment

25 Citations1998Rubik Atamian, Wig Demoville

College TeachingOffice Hours as You Like Them: Integrating Real-Time Chats into the Course Media Mix

15 Citations2001Kim McKeage

This article reports on the use of integrated synchronous electronic office hours with asynchronous course conferencing in a class on introductory marketing.

Journal of Computing in Higher EducationKey aspects of a computerized statistics course

9 Citations1997Lawrence C. Marsh, Karin L. Wells

All aspects of computerized teaching in the context of teaching an undergraduate statistics course, including lectures, homeworks, and office hours/communications are discussed.