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The summary of the findings of the workshop were presented in the
previous chapter. As stated in chapter 8 there were factors affected
student performance in the VDS 3 environment, these factors were
mainly based on the students‟ previous background and learning habits.
The following section will present a summary of the most influential key
factors within the findings, the factors which had the highest impact on
the recommendations are presented later in this chapter. The four axes
selected by the researcher to base the findings on are: Students; Senior
Management; Network and Instructors. The researcher believes that
addressing these factors is influential when considering technology
integration.
9.3.1 Students
Figure 9.1: Findings Facets
As evidenced in chapter seven, the final version of the VDS (named
VDS 3), received extensive interest from the faculty and the students of
the University of Sharjah. This is due to its unique nature and the
innovative deployment of high technological tools in the architectural
design education. Positive feedback was received from the faculty staff
and students with the consistent and current use of a number of tools by
collaborators (for example the use of social networking sites in
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