Making a Difference in Education through Built Environment Education

Making a Difference in Teacher Education Courses: A Psychological Reconsideration

1 Making a Difference ? Education and ‘ Ability ’ in Physical Education

Making a Difference? Education and Ability' in Physical Education. This paper brings a speculative, sociological perspective to the nature of 'ability' in Physical Education (PE) and asks why this aspect of embodiment, with notable exceptions, has received so little critical attention in the professional discourse of PE and associated research in recent years. It is suggested that thinking abou...

Virtual Reality and 3d Modelling in Built Environment Education

This study builds upon previous research on the integration of Virtual Reality (VR) within the built environment curriculum and aims to investigate the role of Virtual Reality and three-dimensional (3D) computer modelling on learning and teaching in a school of the built environment. In order to achieve this aim a number of academic experiences were analysed to explore the applicability and via...

Continuing Education Acoustic Privacy within the Built Environment

Typing the word ‘privacy’ into any search engine yields a virtually endless stream of entries describing the ways in which this basic human right can be violated. There are reports of hackers acquiring credit card information, law enforcement agencies mining social networking sites, and members of the public using drones to take aerial photographs. More recent headlines indicate that voice-acti...

Learning through Collaboration in a Distributed Education Environment

This paper describes how the Computing Department of the Open University is using the Internet for collaborative learning in a distributed educational process. Our research has been to see the extent to which traditional communications media can be replaced by electronic communication for the whole educational process and in particular to assess the role of collaborative learning in a distribut...