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Teaching engineering subjects is not trivial. Construction engineering is complex and involves many different topics and skills. Traditional approaches such as lecturing in a classroom are not effective. Students need practical skills in order to carry tasks that they meet in real life. It is important that we design the learning environment as authentic as possible. This paper describes the 8 R’s that are used to illustrate how construction engineers are taught and what kind of needs are met for learning tools by this kind of learning.
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Naaranoja, M., Uden, L. (2015). Eight R’s – Case Study. In: Uden, L., Liberona, D., Welzer, T. (eds) Learning Technology for Education in Cloud. LTEC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 533. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22629-3_6
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