Building Information Modeling 101 (OpenLearning)

Offered by Taylor's University,
Building Information Modeling 101 (OpenLearning)

Welcome to Taylor’s School of Design & Architecture (SABD) Massive Online Open Course (MOOC). In this course, Building Information Modeling 101, your instructor Bruce Lee will share with you the fundamentai concepts of building information modeling (BIM) and with his guidance you will model a simple shelter with BIM software.

Learners are expected to review the lesson in form of video/pdf/ppt slides and participate in the course activities in form of forum, or quizzes in several formats in order to receive the certificate of completion.
At the end of the lesson, learners will be able to:

  1. Understand and describe the fundamental concepts of building information modeling (BIM).
  2. Model a simple shelter with building information modeling(BIM) software.
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