On Integration of Social Activities and News Express-Based Learning in Construction Education

Modeling 3D objects has become one of the required technique in multimedia lectures. By the introduction of CAD software, most conceptual design can be implemented in the specific 3D view. To engaging studying, in this paper we design a novel teaching strategy that combines social activity and project-based learning as to develop news express in presentation. In the social activity, students are required to collect feedback and try to demonstrate to people online. In teaching project goal, learners work together and learn to establish big project as team work. In the final stage, each group should accomplish the news express design within 2 hours and publishing to social Web site. The proposed teaching strategy had been applied in real university course in two years. The empirical result showed that learners not only immersive in doing project, but also substantially improves the 3D modeling capability in course. The result of the satisfactory quiz shows that the teaching strategy is highly positive for learning.