Learning building pathology using computers – evaluation of a prototype application

Abstract

Building surveying employers are requiring graduates with a high level of cognitive and experiential skills to enable them to survey buildings directly after graduation with little or no supervision. This has led to a change in thinking for educators as providing this type of graduate requires learning and training material that is time‐consuming and costly to provide, as it requires learners to be actively involved in real surveying tasks. This paper presents the results of a prototype application developed to enable inexperienced surveyors to learn building pathology without leaving their desktops.

Keywords Computer based learning , Surveying , Buildings