A BIM-enabled pedagogical approach
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Date
2019
Authors
Ming, Hu
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University of Oregon
Abstract
Educators and practitioners have come to the consensus that Building Information Modeling (BIM) has
radically transformed how the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry practices and
operates. The move from using traditional Drafting-based Modeling(DM) to BIM constitutes a new
methodology rather than the simple introduction of a new tool. BIM has already become mainstream in
practice. But there is limited number of publications that addressed how this critical development can be
used effectively in higher education. The critical research goal of this study is to document a method of
using BIM as an effective pedagogy to teach a large, mixed- level technology course. A BIM-enabled
pedagogy (BEP) was developed and tested in a “Building Materials and Construction Methods” (BMCM)
class to compare with traditional Drafting-based Modeling pedagogy (DMP). The preliminary results
demonstrated that BEP is more effective than DMP for teaching technology courses in an architecture
curriculum. The aims of this research are as follows: 1) introduce an integrated, BIM-enabled pedagogy in
the BMCM course; 2) identify applicable BIM-based techniques useful in architectural education; and 3)
present some interesting findings regarding the effectiveness of this pedagogy for students at different
levels. In the end, the pedagogical approach is discussed, and further research tasks are identified.
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11 pages