Development and Evaluation of Module for Teaching Building Information Modelling to Technical Education Students in Nigerian Universities

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Building Information Modelling is a digital process and methodology used in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries to create and manage a comprehensive and collaborative building or infrastructure project. This digital representation, often in the form of a 3D model, contains detailed information about the project's physical and functional characteristics. This study developed and validated Building Information Modelling instructional module for teaching Technical Education students in Nigerian Universities. Four research questions guided the study. Survey research design were adopted for the study. The population of the study was all technical education lecturers in Nigerian Universities. Thirty- six technical education lecturers in Technical Education Department in Ebonyi State University, University of Benin and University of Nigeria were selected by simple random sampling technique and used for the study. A 79-item instrument titled Development and Evaluation of Module for Teaching BIM to Technical Education Students in Nigerian Universities was developed as Checklist. The instrument was faced validated by five experts. Cronbach alpha statistics was used to establish the reliability coefficient of the instrument which gave values of .86, .73 and .82 respectively for the three clusters of the instrument. The research questions were analyzed using Mean and standard deviation. Findings of the study revealed that the contents, specific objectives, instructional methods, materials and evaluation techniques of the developed Building Information Modelling instructional module are highly appropriate for teaching students in the Department of Technical Education in Nigerian Universities. The study recommended among others that the National Commission for Universities should adopt the developed BIM instructional module for teaching the students in Nigerian Universities.

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