What is it about?
Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry is increasingly relying on Augmented Reality (AR) as a supporting technology for Building Information Modeling (BIM). AR-enabled BIM techniques are also being engaged in developing Construction Engineering Education and Training (CEET) programs because they enable students and trainees to effectively interact with the construction objects within augmented three-dimensional (3D) environments. With the turn towards remote learning, especially under the effect of the current Covid-19 pandemic, the application of AR-enabled BIM in CEET has become more challenging! Meeting this challenge requires allowing the students to not only remotely witness a live building construction classroom but to be able to virtually move around and navigate the BIM construction models, as well. Actually, AR-enabled BIM techniques have the potential to improve the students’ knowledge retention and their experiential learning during online remote instruction. The main intent of this research is to propose an approach for the implementation of AR-enabled BIM techniques in transforming a traditional delivery method of a core building construction course in the curriculum of the Architectural Engineering (AE) Undergraduate Program at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) into a fully digitalized immersive remote learning course.
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Why is it important?
Besides the benefit of better attainment of the educational content and bridging the gap with the AEC industry, the proposed approach is envisaged to help achieve more efficient use of resources and save the long distances that many students should travel from all Emirates to be present in the UAEU campus.
Perspectives
The transformation approach is envisaged to help bridge the wide gap between the currently students’ gained academic skills on the one hand, and the AEC industry requirements which are rapidly moving towards full digitized immersive building construction techniques, on the other hand. Moreover, the remote delivery of the building construction courses, will not only allow students to be able to learn efficiently while they are physically away from their classes, but also they will acquire the ability to interact remotely, which is an important skill needed for the AEC industry. All this is expected to ultimately increase the employability of the AE graduates in both the local and global AEC industry markets.
Prof. Dr. Khaled Galal Ahmed
UAEU
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This page is a summary of: Augmented Reality in Remote Learning: A Proposed Transformative Approach for Building Construction Education, December 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/econf51404.2020.9385491.
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