This Exploratory Grant project is a great example of the benefits and success of collaboration: bringing together diverse skill sets to develop an effective learning experience for students.
Instructional Challenges
- Logistically, it was difficult to have students visit a construction site in person due to timing and safety issues.
- Faculty wanted to share the created resources with other departments, faculty and universities.
- Students needed to grasp the processes and transformation of construction sites to understand the experience from beginning to end.
Highlights/Solutions
- Create an interactive, simulated environment with VR to imitate a construction experience.
- Create a website that’s adaptable to grow in the future and add more virtual field trips.
- Film instructional videos with before-and-after construction views.
- Offer 2D, 3D and real-life examples of construction drawings and processes.
- Help students understand various landscape architectural concepts, such as the application and use of sustainable materials, green infrastructure techniques and connections between abstract design and physical realities.
Related Links:
Design Document/Learning Objectives Mapping
College of Design Landing Page – Construction Experience
Immersive Environment for LAR 457 – DELTA News Article
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