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properly integrate technology in teaching and facilitating these design
studio courses. This work aims at formulating a framework for
implementing technology in architecture design education which makes
it valuable for both streams of design education in the UAE that are
described above. The framework will also potentially benefit any design-
led curriculum in the UAE and Gulf region.
4.4 Conclusion
This chapter summarised the teaching and learning methods in the UAE
Higher Educational institutes. It also showed how the methods are
based on teacher-centred styles in opposition to the desired student-
centred styles that are recommended by learning theorists. The chapter
specifically considered architecture education in the UAE, introducing
the universities that house schools of architecture and architectural
engineering department, and discusses specifically the design curricula
as practised in the UAE, aiming at highlighting their weakness and
introducing ways of improvement in the future to meet the required
standard. This review informed the preliminary field work and the
identification of potential partners for the testing and implementation of
the VDS.
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