Construction management education in cyberspace: a critical review and analysis

Abstract

ABSTRACT The learning era of construction management (CM) has been enriched with the introduction of cyberspace, where the traditional learning process was exchanged with a smart learning environment. Despite the benefits of technical improvements, cyberspace has brought pedagogical challenges in motivating and assessing students. The main problem has become finding and choosing the most effective technology for cyber educators, who are challenged with technological improvements and lack of a comprehensive review and analysis on previous cyberlearning applications. This gap in literature has been the motive to prepare a review on a selection of cyberlearning tools and methods in CM education. The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive literature review on the history of computer tools and how the key ways of using technology have been used to promote CM learning in cyberspace. A critical literature review was combined with means and methods of teaching in previous studies to assess a variety of cyberlearning applications such as virtual reality technologies, simulation and gaming and Cyber-Physical Systems. This study is valuable for CM education educators and research to learn about the applications and trends in CM cyberlearning, as well as gaps in the knowledge to fill.