| authors |
Yeung, C., Cheung, L., Yen, J. and Cheng, C. |
| year |
1998 |
| title |
Virtual Classroom for Architecture |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.1998.093
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| source |
CAADRIA ‘98 [Proceedings of The Third Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 4-907662-009] Osaka (Japan) 22-24 April 1998, pp. 93-102 |
| summary |
Over the past few years, we have seen that the evolution of the Internet and
World Wide Web technologies have significantly enhanced the global communication
and collaboration. People, no matter where they are, are virtually getting closer and
closer. The barriers that came from time and distance have been partially removed by
the use of such technologies. Internet and WWW are not just technology, they are an
environment or space. With such breakthrough in technologies, a new paradigm in
education is there. The education very differently from what we have now.
This paper presents an Internet-based environment to support teaching and learning
in architecture education. We will discuss the design concept and how to integrate the
technology and knowledge-based techniques to implement the learning environment for
architecture students. Architecture is a very specific discipline which consists of the
knowledge from arts, sciences, engineering, and more. One of the focuses in
architecture education is to teach how to express and communicate design ideas with the
multimedia or other technologies, such as, virtual reality (VR). A case study presented
in this paper is about how to deliver and present the ancient Chinese temples and its
bracket set systems from the server to the browsers to support distance teaching. That
is, students and teachers may not be in the same location, but they are able to watch the
same objects and to exchange ideas. We will discuss how to use multimedia
technologies to illustrate how a temple and its bracket set differ from dynasties to
dynasties and introduce its basic properties to the viewers. Moreover, we will discuss
how we organize and handle 3-dimensional objects with such system.
Many people are still arguing about whether Internet-based teaching or a real
classroom setting is better. We are not implying that Internet-based teaching is superior
or predicting that it will dominate the teaching in the near future. However, we strongly
believe that it is just another alternative to express and represent architectural thinking
to over some of the barriers that come from time and distance. We believe, that it is
always true, that the Internet-based teaching may provide both teachers and learners
greater flexibility and to support more International collaboration. That is, regardless
where the students or teachers are, they can always participate in learning or teaching
and make teaching and learning much more rich and interesting.
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| keywords |
Virtual Classroom |
| series |
CAADRIA |
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| more |
http://www.caadria.org |
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