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Figure 7.2: The Use of Skills Level
Figure 7.2 above shows the main themes of the VDS 3 environment
from the ones mentioned in Table 7.5. The figure illustrates the usage
of each of these main elements promoted in the VDS 3 environment.
The information depicts the level of utilisation of the VDS elements that
was received by the students. The usage was calculated according to
the number of coded references according to the data collected during
the observation. From above we can conclude that the mostly used
features were the technological ones represented by the technological
tools being synchronous, asynchronous, virtual reality, or any other
technological tools.
7.4.1 Technology utilisation
The main goal for this work was to integrate new technology in
architecture design education in the UAE; this section will illustrate the
students‟ utilisation of the technology that was made available to them in
this workshop in an attempt to analyse the important factors to be
considered as far as technology is concerned plus students‟
performance and how they perceived and used the technologies
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