CEBE Subject Centre, Open Resources for Built Environment Education (ORBEE)

  • Start date: 2010-08-31
  • End date: 2011-08-31
  • Status: complete

This project plans to repurpose teaching and learning materials; and research built environment education resources making them freely available online. This permits their free use especially to address sector needs on ‘work place, work related or distance learning’.  Consequently, by harnessing the knowledge capital of HEI-Industry engagement, a range of relevant re-calibrated open educational resources will be provided.

CEBE’s broad overall mission is to ensure that the UK continues to remain innovative in the provision of world class education and training in the Built Environment. ORBEE will focus on upskilling by sharing learning materials on core, specialised and future skills areas.

Aims and Objectives

The aim of this project is to encourage and enable the universal sharing of built environment educational resources that allows learners to study in an interesting and challenging way.  Key objectives include:

  • Analysing, repurposing and creating selected materials for open access
  • Encouraging and embedding positive ORBEE culture
Anticipated outputs and outcomes
  • Create discipline specific resources based around materials optimised for work place, work related or distance learning
  • Build an ORBEE community of practice to extend and continue cultural change
  • Welcome and work with existing developments and initiatives in order to inform, understand and make recommendations for future developments

Key Focus Areas

  1. Resources optimised for work-place or work-related learning
  2. Specialist courses linked to the needs of particular sectors of employment

Organisations

Lead Institution:

  • Centre for Education in the Built Environment (CEBE) subject centre

Consortium Partners:

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