Situational eLearning : the new potential for digital technology

Sidney Newton; Mary Hardie; Russell Lowe; Sean Pickersgill; Rameez Rameezdeen; Amit Srivastava; George Zillante

Situational eLearning : the new potential for digital technology

Sidney Newton, Mary Hardie, Russell Lowe, Sean Pickersgill, Rameez Rameezdeen, Amit Srivastava, George Zillante

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

Abstract

The construction industry must do more to develop graduates with the practice-ready skills they need to play an effective role in the workplace. Situated learning lends itself to the development of key competencies, but it is contingent on the availability of authentic clinical experiences. Emerging digital technologies will help realize the potential for supplementing or replacing direct student engagement in practice with a simulated clinical experience. Situational eLearning is proposed as a generic and entirely scalable vehicle for a broad range of stakeholders (including academics, practitioners, industry bodies and students) to collaborate in developing authentic clinical experiences. A range of learning resources specific to bespoke situation contexts can be created and deployed using emerging digital technologies. Access to the resources is monitored and student performance is measured and analysed. The adaptive resources are freely available on a crowd-sourcing basis. This paper reports on the progress of a two-year collaborative project to develop and trial the Situational eLearning approach in construction and architecture undergraduate programs at four universities in Australia.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	RICS COBRA AUBEA 2015: The Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, The Australasian UniversitiesÃ¢€™ Building Educators Association Conference, Held in Sydney, Australia in association with AUBEA, the University of Technology Sydney and University of Western Sydney, 8-10 July 2015
Publisher	Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781783210718
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	COBRA (Conference) - Duration: 8 Jul 2015 → …

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Conference	COBRA (Conference)
Period	8/07/15 → …

Keywords

construction industry
study and teaching (higher)
practicums
computer simulation
web-based instruction

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Newton, S., Hardie, M., Lowe, R., Pickersgill, S., Rameezdeen, R., Srivastava, A., & Zillante, G. (2015). Situational eLearning : the new potential for digital technology. In RICS COBRA AUBEA 2015: The Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, The Australasian UniversitiesÃ¢€™ Building Educators Association Conference, Held in Sydney, Australia in association with AUBEA, the University of Technology Sydney and University of Western Sydney, 8-10 July 2015 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Newton, Sidney ; Hardie, Mary ; Lowe, Russell et al. / Situational eLearning : the new potential for digital technology. RICS COBRA AUBEA 2015: The Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, The Australasian UniversitiesÃ¢€™ Building Educators Association Conference, Held in Sydney, Australia in association with AUBEA, the University of Technology Sydney and University of Western Sydney, 8-10 July 2015. Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 2015.

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Newton, S, Hardie, M, Lowe, R, Pickersgill, S, Rameezdeen, R, Srivastava, A & Zillante, G 2015, Situational eLearning : the new potential for digital technology. in RICS COBRA AUBEA 2015: The Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, The Australasian UniversitiesÃ¢€™ Building Educators Association Conference, Held in Sydney, Australia in association with AUBEA, the University of Technology Sydney and University of Western Sydney, 8-10 July 2015. Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, COBRA (Conference), 8/07/15.

Situational eLearning : the new potential for digital technology. / Newton, Sidney; Hardie, Mary; Lowe, Russell et al.
RICS COBRA AUBEA 2015: The Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, The Australasian UniversitiesÃ¢€™ Building Educators Association Conference, Held in Sydney, Australia in association with AUBEA, the University of Technology Sydney and University of Western Sydney, 8-10 July 2015. Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 2015.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

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