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CEBE Educational Development Grant projects 2005-2006
In the academic year 2005-06, CEBE is providing support and funding for nine
small scale learning and teaching projects as part of the Centre's Educational
Development Grants (EDG) programme. Summaries of the projects are listed below:
The Development of a Computer Simulation
game to deliver the Architectural Studies curriculum |
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Andrew Agapiou, School
of Architecture, Strathclyde University
Using a scenario-based approach, this project explores the teaching
potential of a web-based simulation game to deliver the Architectural
Studies curriculum. The contract management simulator is a web-based game
that aims to help architecture students make sense of the contract management
process and to develop their knowledge and understanding of the legalities
of relationships between parties involved in the design and construction
of buildings. The system, in conjunction with two other internet based
systems being developed by the applicants, will give students access to
information about the construction industry which is not readily available
from any other source.
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Constructionarium Teacher's Guide |
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Alison Ahearn, Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London
The resource to be created is a "why to" and "how to"
guide for teachers who are interested in setting up a Constructionarium.
This is a project designed to give hands-on experience of working on a
‘real life’ engineering design. The guide will contain information
on educational issues and benefits in order to allow teachers to make
a case to their universities for investing staff time and effort in such
projects. Details on planning, running, supervising, assessing and evaluating
a Constructionarium will be provided, along with practical details for
the potential industry sponsor/partner as well as the university teacher.
The Constructionarium has already won innovation awards from industry
and is an ACBEE case study (see www.cebe.heacademy.ac.uk/learning/acbee/index.php).
It has potential for impact on Built Environment learning, teaching and
assessment as it puts students into a real construction environment, yet
allows them to take on roles from being a Chartered Engineer down to general
labourer and to be assessed on the product, process and synthesis of learning.
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Building for Success |
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Denise Eaton, Women in SET team, Sheffield Hallam
University
This project aims to tackle the severe skills shortages in the Built
Environment sector, while also addressing the gender pay gap. Teaching
and learning materials will be developed which can be used as a tool to
encourage formative learning processes for women and girls in the wider
community. A comprehensive learner workbook and teaching toolkit will
be produced for a ‘Design Day’ teaching session to encourage
women and girls from the community to realise that they do have a role
to play in influencing the built environment around them, and that they
already have some of the skills required to enable them to consider a
career in this field.
Click here for further information
and to download project resources
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Developing Public Involvement Skills |
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Dory Reeves, Reeves Associates,
Glasgow
This project will provide an up to date resource for tutors in the built
environment professions to enable students to develop, through live project
work, their skills of community engagement. These are now recognised as
essential in planning. The key deliverable is a workbook with the material
necessary for a tutor setting up and running a project designed to develop
the skills of community involvement as part of a professional programme.
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and to download project resources
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Measurement of Framed Structures |
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Geoff Hodgson, Department of Civil
and Building Engineering, Loughborough University
This project will deliver an integrated solution to teaching the basic
quantity surveying skill of 'taking-off', achieved through an e-learning
strategy that blends video, still images and text to provide streamed
media. The latter will explain the process of 'taking-off' for concrete
and steel framed structures with still images and/or video clips of framed
structures and their connections, 2D drawings, 3D representations of the
2D drawings and step by step audio visual explanations of how the various
structural components are 'taken-off'. This approach will enable students
to relate technological considerations to 'taking-off' in a seamless and
user-friendly manner.
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to download project resources
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