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Results of Project 'Introducing 3D Modeling into Geometry Education at Technical Colleges'

During the year 2012 nine members of the Croatian Society for Geometry and Graphics worked on the project Introducing 3D Modeling into Geometry Education at Technical Colleges supported by the Fund for the Development of the University of Zagreb. Four faculties were included: Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Geodesy and Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering. The goals of the project were strengthening the professional and scientific cooperation among the faculties in the area of technical sciences, developing teaching methodology for 3D computer modeling to enhance the geometry courses, and harmonization of educational material standards and their further implementation in the e-learning systems of the included faculties. The focus of the project was creating a basic repository of educational materials related to common teaching topics and those customized to profiles of each faculty. The special emphasis was given to the materials connected to 3D computer modeling. Until the academic year 2012/2013 Descriptive geometry as a course at the faculties of the University of Zagreb was mostly taught in the classical way by using rulers and compasses. Since this year the Rhinoceros program has also been included in the instruction of the aforementioned course at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering. Here we will present some parts of the educational materials included in the repository.

geometry education; e-learning; 3D modeling; Rhinoceros

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