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What is Practitioner

Handbook of Research on Building Information Modeling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies
From an overarching view, in this chapter practitioners are the actors involved in the AEC industry. The main focus is, however, architects and their interactions with other actors involved in the architectural design process.
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The Role of BIM in the Architectural Design Process: Learning from Practitioners' Stories
Anita Moum (SINTEF Building and Infrastructure/Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-928-1.ch026
Abstract
The objective of this chapter is to identify the role of BIMs in the architectural design process from the practitioners’ point of view. The chapter investigates the main factors affecting the practitioners’ use of BIM, and how BIM impacts their work and interactions. The chapter presents a holistic research approach as well as the findings from its application in four real-life projects. In these projects, much of the practitioners’ focus was on upgrading skills and improving technology. Nevertheless, a number of their challenges were linked to the nature of the architectural design process, particularly to its “hardto- grasp” iterative and intuitive features. A conclusion of this research indicates that the role of BIM is affected by the many interdependencies, relations and interfaces embedded in the highly complex and partly unpredictable real world practice. A future challenge would be to understand, master and balance these relationships - upstream and downstream across multiple levels, processes and activities. The presented holistic research approach and the related findings contributed to research which aimed to embrace the complexity of real-life problems and gain a more comprehensive understanding of what is happening in practice.
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Inclusive Frameworks in Online STEM Teaching and Learning
A teacher or educator engaged in the practice of teaching and learning.
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Role Play as an Effective Method for the Identification and Assessment of Human Trafficking
An individual involved in a discipline, or profession, particularly medicine.
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Prototyping and Student Engagement: A Case Study in Design Thinking
One who is actively engaged in a discipline or profession.
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Research on International Business and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Managerial and Policy Implications
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Faculty Development in Digital Spaces: Designing and Implementing Innovative Modular Online Programming
The second Level in the DEEP system. Designed to provide faculty participants with the opportunity to practice teaching and learning approaches. The Practitioner Level allows faculty to experiment with integrating a new or unfamiliar teaching strategy into the classroom (such as video in a flipped classroom or video editing project) using digital technology. Faculty participants are encouraged to retain and share samples of exercises within the Practitioner Level of the DEEP system.
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Social Emotional Development and Early Childhood Mental Health: Special Education and Social Work Collaboration
Professionals who support the learning, development, care, and overall well-being of young children identified as at-risk and with disabilities and their families.
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Music Composition and Kyosei: Advancing Practice Through Teaching-Learning Partnerships
Educator, in this case a music teacher, actively employed to teach school children.
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Leading Change in an Unpredictable World: What Does Sustainable, Resilient Change Look Like?
A person concerned with making a difference happen within a specific situation.
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Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Maturity Models: Utility for Practitioners
A person’s whose knowledge of domain area derives from active engagement within that domain, whether it be an art, discipline, or profession. In contrast to a theoretician whose understanding of the domain derives from theoretical analysis and research.
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