Education is a well-established topic within the BIM research community, as illustrated by the following list of research communities that include education as conference topics: the Association for Education and Research in Computer-Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe, 2016), the International Society for Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE, 2016), the IT in Construction by the International Council for Research and Innovation Building and Construction (CIB W78, 2016), and the European Conference for Product and Process Modeling (ECPPM, 2016).
A study by Chegu Badrinath et al. (2016) identified 70 academic BIM education publications based on search engines such as Google Scholar and Scopus. Of these, half were published in 2015, 71% of which were conference papers. Case studies and experiences were the dominant type of publication in this study. Studies by Øverland (2016) showed that most case studies were conducted without use of pedagogical theories or pedagogical frameworks in BIM-related studies. The BIM-related research within education has mostly focused on presenting cases from a stakeholder’s point of view, without analysis based on pedagogical frameworks. Transfer of experiences will therefore be similarities to case, and not to a joint pedagogical framework.