Environments and System Types of Virtual Reality Technology in STEM: a Survey <s> F. Construction progress monitoring <s> Construction progress monitoring has been recognized as one of the key elements that lead to the success of a construction project. By performing construction progress monitoring, corrective measures and other appropriate actions can be taken in a timely manner, thereby enabling the actual performance to be as close as possible to the desired outcome even if the construction performance significantly deviates from the original plan. However, current methods of data acquisition and its use in construction progress monitoring have tended to be manual and time consuming. This paper proposes an efficient, automated 3D structural component recognition and modeling method that employs color and 3D data acquired from a stereo vision system for use in construction progress monitoring. An outdoor experiment was performed on an actual construction site to demonstrate the applicability of the method to 3D modeling of such environments, and the results indicate that the proposed method can be beneficial for construction progress monitoring. <s> BIB001 </s> Environments and System Types of Virtual Reality Technology in STEM: a Survey <s> F. Construction progress monitoring <s> The complicated nature of interior construction works makes the detailed progress monitoring challenging. Current interior construction progress monitoring methods involve submission of periodic reports and are constrained by their reliance on manually intensive processes and limited support for recording visual information. Recent advances in image-based visualization techniques enable reporting construction progress using interactive and visual approaches. However, analyzing significant amounts of as-built construction photographs requires sophisticated techniques. To overcome limitations of existing approaches, this research focuses on visualization and computer vision techniques to monitor detailed interior construction progress using an object-based approach. As-planned 3D models from Building Information Modeling (BIM) and as-built photographs are visualized and compared in a walk-through model. Within such an environment, the as-built interior construction objects are decomposed to automatically generate the status of construction progress. This object-based approach introduces an advanced model that enables the user to have a realistic understanding of the interior construction progress. <s> BIB002 </s> Environments and System Types of Virtual Reality Technology in STEM: a Survey <s> F. Construction progress monitoring <s> The rapidly changing economic, financial and social conditions require new knowledge and competences in order to be able to understand them, adapt to the new requirements and remain competitive and successful in the globalised social environment. Widening the access to lifelong learning is one way in which this could be achieved. A special role in this process is given to universities as promoters of lifelong learning. E-learning is a means of promoting the changes in academic studies and providing an opportunity to integrate non-formal and informal learning elements into formal education. Individualisation, learning opportunities flexible in time, as well as the e-environment can facilitate the development of students' competences. This article presents a study conducted during the implementation of an inter-university master's programme, 'Educational Treatment of Diversity' (in Spain, Latvia, Germany and the Czech Republic) in 2008-10. The research question was: which challenges for widening of opportunities were secured in e-learning in order to promote students' generic competences as a learning outcome? <s> BIB003
Construction progress monitoring has been recognized as one of the key elements that lead to the success of a construction project. On the other word, by performing advanced control, exact measurement and other suitable procedures and steps can be fulfilled in the specific time BIB001 . Accordingly, it will certainly be easy to enable the performance to be as close as possible to the desired outcome even if the structure performance significantly deviates from the main design. Nevertheless, the ways of data acquisition nowadays and its use in construction progress monitoring has tended to be manual and time-consuming. The complicated nature of construction works makes the detailed progress monitoring challenging. Current construction progress monitoring methods involve submission of periodic reports and compelled by their dependence on manually dense processes and limited support for recording visual information BIB002 . Recently, the techniques of image based visualization allow using reporting construction progress by using "interactive and visual approaches"  . The virtual models can be useful both in face-to-face classes and in distance learning using E-learning technology. VR technique can easily provide chances to transfer technical education in ways not possible through traditional methods, thereby expanded the range of tools available to students to allow more educators and subjects are getting benefits. On the other hand, Birzina et al. BIB003 argued that to make a didactic application be used as an E-learning tool, it should be reusable, accessible, durable and interoperable.