Collaborative Learning Experiences in a Changing Environment: Innovative Educational Approaches in Architecture
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This article deals with a remarkably interesting topic, namely the collaborative learning experiences in a changing environment regarding innovative educational approaches in Architecture.
This article research is based on the effectiveness and impacts of experienced-based methods of learning as well as innovative educational tools in architecture aimed at shaping expertise in which, both the environmental dimension and the climate-change challenge, dialogues with the context's complexity in terms of socio-cultural dynamics, real potentialities and constrains, addressing their transdisciplinary trajectories.
The article title “Collaborative learning experiences in a changing environment. Innovative educational approaches in architecture.” accurately reflects the content and purpose of the paper.
This article also explores the implications of the sustainability-driven, emerging needs in architecture education and presents five case studies which have been selected and analysed in depth. These case studies are part of different national educational frameworks and diverse geographical contexts such as: Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Caribbean).
The abstract is concise and provides sufficient information. The keywords are adequate. The introduction section presents a relatively good literature review and locates well the work. The article describes very well the methodology and research methods. The results are consistent and represent a contribution to a better knowledge of the new trends which matter in architectural education on the contemporary 21st century. The bibliographic review and the references are important and up to date.
The work is publishable, but it still needs some minor improvements before to be accepted. Such suggestions/questions are the result of small gaps in information/discussion that can easily be overcome by the authors.
The article can be accepted if this is taken into consideration and the English language reviewed because of small gaps and typos (for example in line 127 consider “Caribbean” instead of “Carribean” and so on…).
It is worth pointing out why these five study cases were chosen. Are these relating to the leading universities teaching architecture in these countries?
“Appendix A. Interview guide”, from line 721 to line 749, is repeated and identical to “Appendix A Interview guide” from line 750 to line 766
Author Response
Many thanks to the reviewer for the appreciation of the work. We checked the references and corrected some of them: we will introduce further adjustments, if needed, after the layout team proofreading work, as the Editor kindly instructed us to do.
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear authors.
Congratulate them for the work done. At a general level, it presents a complete theoretical framework, well founded and with numerous citations that support the above. It is of great quality and stands out in the investigation.
The selected cases are examples of study plans that include the topic of study.
Clear and structured results. The work of deepening and organizing the information for a better understanding is appreciated.
The discussion and conclusions are subscribed to the results found and the research objectives.
It is recommended to review the adjustment of the references to the journal's regulations to achieve that point of excellence in the work.
Best regards
Author Response
Many thanks to the reviewer for the appreciation of the work and for the suggestion given to improve it. We have corrected the typos and gaps we found within the text. We have removed the repeated Appendix A, that we had include twice by mistake.
We have integrated the paragraph describing the case-study selection criteria (lines 292 to 305), aiming at better explaining how we chosen these Universities and programs.
