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Bobadoye, Sunday A.; Afolami, Adewale J.; Olabode, Ogunmakinde; Aribisala, Emmanuel E. – African Higher Education Review, 2013
This study examined the link between the Nigeria Institute of Architects and the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) with respect to the Professional Practice Examinations (PPE). It sought to establish why so many graduates are yet to write the PPE and to identify the perceptions about the examination and the professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Architectural Education, Architecture
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Wu, Yun-Wu; Weng, Kuo-Hua – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
Lack of creativity is a problem often plaguing students from design-related departments. Therefore, this study is intended to incorporate analogical thinking in the education of architecture design to enhance students' learning and their future career performance. First, this study explores the three aspects of architecture design curricula,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Architecture, Foreign Countries
Lucas, Michael – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2013
Margin acts as ground to receive the figure of the text. Margin is initially unreadable, but as suggested by gestalt studies, may be reversed, or regrounded. A humanities course, "Native American Architecture and Place," was created for a polytechnic student population, looking to place as an inroad for access to the margins of a better…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Social Influences
Hong, Seung Wan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Creativity is an important criterion for evaluating conceptual and design abilities of architects and their praxis. However, in recent years, the world has grown more complex. New problems have emerged that are often outside the architect's capacity. Given this challenge, architects collaborate with colleagues from architecture and other related…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Creativity, Cooperation, Electronic Learning
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Valdés Aguirre, Benjamín; Ramírez Uresti, Jorge A.; du Boulay, Benedict – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2016
Sharing user information between systems is an area of interest for every field involving personalization. Recommender Systems are more advanced in this aspect than Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) and Intelligent Learning Environments (ILEs). A reason for this is that the user models of Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Intelligent Learning…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Models, Open Source Technology, Computers
Bengtsson, Jan, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2011
In all modern societies almost everyone of their citizens have spent many years in school buildings, and the largest professional group in modern societies, teachers, is working every day during the working year in school buildings. In spite of this, we know surprisingly little about the influence of school buildings on the people who use them and…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, School Buildings, Foreign Countries, Space Utilization
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Walkup, Nancy – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2010
Artists have created portraits of people for thousands of years. In sculpture, a portrait of a person's face often includes the neck and part of the shoulders and chest. These artworks are called portrait busts. In this article, the author describes how her fifth-grade students created clay portrait busts on pedestal columns. The objectives are…
Descriptors: Portraiture, Grade 5, Sculpture, Studio Art
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Yao, Xia; He, Linchun – International Education Studies, 2012
A statistical analysis of employment flow of landscape architecture graduates was conducted on the employment data of graduates major in landscape architecture in 2008 to 2011. The employment flow of graduates was to be admitted to graduate students, industrial direction and regional distribution, etc. Then, the features of talent flow and factors…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential
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Jessop, Tansy; Gubby, Laura; Smith, Angela – Studies in Higher Education, 2012
This article draws together two linked studies on formal teaching spaces within one university. The first consisted of a multi-method analysis, including observations of four teaching events, interviews with academics and estates staff, analysis of architectural plans, and a talking campus tour. The second study surveyed 166 students about their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis, Educational Facilities Design, Higher Education
Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Siler-Evans, Kyle; Hunter, Gerald Paul; Broten, Nicholas – RAND Corporation, 2017
This second of five annual reports focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing-related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education indicators in the Appalachia Partnership Initiative (API) region, comprising twenty-seven counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Together,…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Fuels, Industry, Wages
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Houshmand, Sara; Spanierman, Lisa B.; Beer, Amanda M.; Poteat, V. Paul; Lawson, Laura J. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
This study examined the racial attitudes of White undergraduates (N = 15) enrolled in a service-learning design studio, in which students worked closely on landscape architecture projects with residents in a low-income African American community. Using a modified consensual qualitative research method, the authors analyzed a series of guided…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Service Learning, White Students, Undergraduate Students
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Kostal, Heather – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2011
Five- and six-year-olds know a lot about their own homes. Besides school, home is probably where they spend most of their time. But have they ever really thought about their space? Using students' knowledge of their current space will help them design new spaces and think about all the areas that surround them. In this project, students design…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Cristobal, Jesus; Merino, Jorge; Navarro, Antonio; Peralta, Miguel; Roldan, Yolanda; Silveira, Rosa Maria – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2011
Purpose: The design, construction and deployment of a large virtual campus are a complex issue. Present virtual campuses are made of several software applications that complement e-learning platforms. In order to develop and maintain such virtual campuses, a complex software engineering infrastructure is needed. This paper aims to analyse the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Engineering Education, Campuses, Programming Languages
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Hubbert, Beth – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2011
Architecture is a versatile, multifaceted area to study in the artroom with multiple age levels. It can easily stimulate a study of basic line, shape, and various other art elements and principles. It can then be extended into a more extensive study of architectural elements, styles, specific architects, architecture of different cultures, and…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Studio Art, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Burgdorff, Frauke – CELE Exchange, 2011
Good architecture responds to contemporary challenges, irrespective of fashionable trends, and is characterised by rigorous building processes. Office buildings, housing, stadiums and theatres offer outstanding examples of this principle. But do school buildings figure among them? Happily, in Germany they do, although they are still too rare. This…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Foreign Countries, School Buildings, School Construction
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