Teaching Building Information Modeling in the Metaverse—An Approach Based on Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of the Students Perspective
- The teaching of civil engineering consists of different didactic approaches, such as lectures, group work or research-based teaching, depending on the respective courses. Currently, the metaverse is gaining importance in teaching and offers the possibility of a new teaching approach for civil engineering and especially for the teaching of courses from the areas of “Digital Design and Construction”. Although the advantages of teaching in the metaverse, such as location and time independence or a higher learning outcome, are mentioned in the literature, there are also challenges that must be considered when teaching in the metaverse. Against this background, this paper examines the implications of using the metaverse as a teaching tool in teaching “Digital Design and Construction”. The impact of teaching BIM in the metaverse is evaluated by (1) a literature review and workshops to evaluate use cases and demands for extended reality (XR) and the metaverse, (2) integrating XR and the metaverse in the courses and valuation by quantitative evaluations and (3) analyzing student papers of the courses and outcomes of a World Café. Due to these steps, this paper presents a novel approach by reflecting the students’ perspective. Furthermore, this paper presents a validated approach for integrating BIM and the metaverse in teaching.
Author: | Niels Bartels, Kristina Hahne |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-epub4-26015 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13092198 |
ISSN: | 2075-5309 |
Parent Title (English): | Buildings |
Descirption of the primary publication: | 29.08.2023 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first Publication: | 2023/11/24 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2023/11/24 |
GND-Keyword: | Augmented Reality; Building Information Modeling |
Tag: | Building Information Modeling (BIM); Digital Design and Construction; Education; Immersive Teaching; Metaverse |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 9 |
Article Number: | 2198 |
Page Number: | 18 |
Institutes: | Bauingenieurwesen und Umwelttechnik (F06) / Fakultät 06 / Institut für Baubetrieb, Vermessung und Bauinformatik |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik |
Open Access: | Open Access |
OA-Publicationfonds TH Köln: | OA-Publicationfonds TH Köln |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |