Architecture education is a relatively new undertaking in Uganda. Despite this opportunity to develop an updated curriculum and pedagogy, an old paradigm continues to persist; isolating the teaching of architectural technology from ‘main stream’ design studios. The consequential inability by graduates to link architectural design and architectural technology in design is evident throughout Ugan...

aim of this paper is to search and find ways and methods of constructivism teaching and learning ideas inteaching the architectural design studio. the objective is to extract all the positive things constructivism has to offer the architectural design studio for efficient teaching and effective learning. although there are similarities in the curricula of training architects all over the world,...

This paper presents an analysis result of collaborative studio course that engages students, faculty and practitioners. The collaborative studio is one of the two sequential capstone courses. As the capstone studio experience of students’ academic design career, these two capstone courses encourage students’ initiative and independence in design. Students are required to choose a practitioner a...

The Software Development Studio is the centerpiece of Carnegie Mellon's Master of Software Engineering Curriculum. It represents 40 per cent of the course units students spend in the program. The Studio has continuously evolved since its prototype in the spring and summer of 1990. The lessons learned about organization, projects, and other issues are the subject of this paper. The use of a well...

I work in a multi-disciplinary team at Microsoft that is responsible for designing and building the user experience for users using the Visual Studio .Net suite of products. Visual Studio .Net is a large product suite, comprising a variety of software tools such as code profilers, debuggers, bug tracking tools, testing tools, code editors and language compilers. Multiple programming languages a...