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Teaching Design of Building Structures Using Visualization and Animation Techniques

Teaching Design of Building Structures Using Visualization and Animation Techniques. Mohamed A. El-Gafy Department of Technology. !!! Thanks !!!. This Project was funded by the CTLT Teaching-Learning Development Grant Special Thanks to: Dr. Patrick O'Sullivan Beth Welch .

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Teaching Design of Building Structures Using Visualization and Animation Techniques

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  1. Teaching Design of Building Structures Using Visualization and AnimationTechniques Mohamed A. El-Gafy Department of Technology 7th Annual University-Wide Symposium on Teaching and Learning

  2. !!! Thanks !!! • This Project was funded by the CTLT Teaching-Learning Development Grant • Special Thanks to: • Dr. Patrick O'Sullivan • Beth Welch

  3. Presentation Outline • Research Initiatives & Problem Statement • Literature Review • What did I do? • Results: How did I use it? • How Can you use it? • Conclusion

  4. Problem Statement • Understanding structures design in construction management education. • The engineering-based approaches are highly quantitative, communicating basic concepts using an advanced mathematics. • Faculty and students historically struggle because construction students do not have the background or time to master the mathematical skills.

  5. Literature Review • learning improvements occur when computer-aided visualizations and animations are used in the classroom (Tjaden and Martin, 1995; Kulik and Kulik, 1989) • Dual coding hypothesis, which states that long-term memory consists of both a verbal and visual coding mechanism (Mayer and Sims, 1994; Mayer and Moreno, 1998).

  6. What Did I do? • Recognized that students learn in a variety of ways • Realized that animations , accompanied by symbolic teaching and oral explanation, will help to increase student interest • Developed animated tools to help students overcome difficulties in working with forces, moments, displacements, and stresses. • As an instructor, these digital animations will help me to: • emphasize or de-emphasize certain structural properties • exaggerate material behavior to convey certain principles

  7. Results: How did I use it? • Explain Loads • Wind load • Explain Ideas • Load Propagation • Tributary Area • Explore and Understand Concepts • Concrete Cracking • Concrete Reinforcement • Diaphragm Action

  8. How Can you use it? • Designing a visualization is like designing an educational activity • What you see in a visualization is built on what you already know (students don’t see what you see) • Be simple • Match the mode of presentation to the mental organization the student is creating

  9. Questions?

  10. Thank You

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