Latest on construction/building design OpenSim project

Summary of latest meetings and technical developments:

- Construction trial now to take place over 2 weeks: weeks of November 29 and December 6:

• 3 groups of 5/6 students each from the Cert II in General Construction Pre-Apprenticeship program
  
• each group undertakes one on the three virtual world-based activity sets from the three competencies: OH&S/sustainability/workplace documents
• For pre-test, use existing theory assessment exercises. Give it to all sts before they do the study (to get baseline knowledge), then again at end (Note: only some pre-App sts do this as part of their training, some are assessed in integrated way, building houses etc...it depends on the circumstances - but in this case they will all get the sheets)

- Building Design trial to take place on November 10. No comparison group. Will look at measuring engagement levels (focus group before and afterwards) plus maybe compare with results from previous years