A web based environment for construction planning courses

Abstract

We have developed a World Wide Web (Web-) based Construction Planning and Control (WEBPCO) educational environment for graduate students and building construction practitioners. WEBPCO represents an information constructed environment (Web site). This environment consists of lectures material, tutorials, additional material (articles, texts, bibliography, etc.), discussion pages, homework assignments, on-line interactive exercises, multiple choice short examinations, and a building scheduling game which last for all the course period. This environment supplements conventional methods of presentation by providing all the needed material linked to examples, exercises, tutorials and an e-mail way of communication between students and the teacher and supervisors. All the communication are done directly into the Web pages on a particular discussion page related to one subject. We describe the mplementation of the WEBPCO environment. An experiment is being running with about twenty participants.