The Virtual Design Studio is comprised of a team of designers from various locations for which the communication is computer-mediated. It allows participants who are geographically dispersed to interact in a design environment and collaborate on the same project without leaving their own environment. The ever-increasing frequency of distant engineering requires an efficient and common language ...

Abstract This research shows and analyses a pedagogical experience with ePortfolio into the bridge context between higher education profession in Latin America, particularly Architectural Design Studio (ADS). The objective was to reveal impacts of use as tool Information Communication Technologies (ICT) on training process enhance Networked Learning Principles (NLP) particular architectural ped...

As student-to-staff ratios escalate, increasing numbers of undergraduate architects are finding the reduction of ‘one-to-one’ studio supervision an impediment to learning. Group design projects are becoming a widespread solution to this problem. However, little analysis has been undertaken as to their effectiveness both in terms of student assessment and as a design teaching methodology. The tw...

In the many years of conferences on the teaching of computer skills or application of computers in design studios, we see discussions about the needs, methods and benefits of teaching the use of computer tools. A few of the papers review how students learn but none report how computer tools can be directly beneficial to the student’s learning of design. This paper reviews design learning ad ill...

The practice of teaching and learning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design has to develop its own approaches that balance method and technology use with reflective and situated practice. We present our HCI design studio course that makes a combined use of constructivist pedagogies and virtual worlds aiming to aid students reflect on the use of related methods and technologies in design and t...

Studio as a model of education is distinct from many other professional disciplines and although it can be quite rewarding on many levels it may also be an extremely unconstructive endeavor.1 The amount of time spent in studio typically far outweighs that spent for other courses and often at the expense of such other courses. The dedication that students bring to the studio is remarkable, yet m...