Guidance Notes


These guidance notes are written for educators who are contemplating, or about to implement, collaborative building design project in their modules/courses, involving international partner(s). They are to provide tips which are compiled based on the experience of the BIM Hub project; a collaboration between Loughborough and Coventry Universities in the UK and Ryerson University in Canada. Read the full Introduction to the Guidance Notes here.

Please use the links below to access the guidance notes:

  1. Professional, institutional and pedagogical requirements
  2. Designing activities for online collaborative design
  3. Support for collaboration
  4. Skills for collaboration
  5. Platforms for collaboration
  6. Skills for online collaboration
  7. Skills for synchronous collaboration

You may also find this more detailed information on teaching interaction in a synchronous online environment useful: Case studies