V Grand Tour: Virtual reality for learning architectural projects

Abstract

The incorporation of ICTs in superior education responds to the social demands of the generation of "digital natives" and is indispensable in education and innovation projects. ICTs allow the development of new methods of teaching and learning that turn the student into the active protagonist of learning. This Project of Educational Innovation of the UPM allows to explore the benefits of the integration of digital media to the teaching of Architecture through travel. The trip is a fundamental formative activity for the architect. Therefore, this project proposes the collective construction of a live and open repository of virtual visits of the buildings visited during the trip through a virtual reality experience. The "virtual visits" are registered and edited by the students themselves and later, coordinated by the teachers, they generate a documentary base capable of activating a community of users that dynamizes the contents.