| dc.description.abstract | Design teaching is an important process and the core of Architectural education.
It reflects the theoretical knowledge as well as practical knowledge while
enhancing the sensitivities and lateral thinking of the students. This pedagogy
facilitates exploring, experiencing, creating and team work based on cognitive,
technical and social skills. Architectural design teaching traditionally relies on
the face-to-face classroom educational system. As Covid -19 pandemic has
impacted every field of society including education, most of the educational
institutions, universities and schools throughout the world have switched to
online systems. Accordingly, architectural education also had to adapt to online
systems to some extent even without having teaching methods specifically
designed for online architectural education. This research was conducted to find
out the effectiveness of online architectural design teaching in the Sri Lankan
context according to the perception of students and teachers. Qualitative data
were collected using a researcher made structured questionnaire distributed
among teachers and students attached to Sri Lankan architecture schools. The
questionnaire was made based on five design teaching and learning methods, i.e.
group discussions, tutoring, critiques, field visits and group work. The purposive
sampling method was used to select the sample considering the experience in
both face-to-face and online architectural design teaching. The size of the sample
was 175 including both students and teachers. The data were analysed by using
the software OriginLab in order to assess the participants’ perceptions. The
overall results show that more than twice as many respondents perceive online
teaching to be ineffective in comparison to those that are in agreement with its
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