The paper focuses on knowledge transfer and learning based on experiences from developing and carrying through master courses in Industrial IT (MII) and civil engineering at Aalborg University and 25 years of teaching experiences within the field. In the MII the students are recruited from industry to follow a 31/2 years time national open education with most learning and project work done in an Internet supported distributed environment. The pedagogic method follows a project-based problem oriented learning paradigm (PPBL). The courses cover areas such as; object oriented programming and relational database design, human computer interface and user environment design, computer supported collaborative working, knowledge management, virtual buildings, intelligent buildings, and building systems simulation. Experiences are reported from use of distributed physical and virtual learning spaces, improved learning styles and learning/teaching methods, properties and functionality of digital learning material, improved and adapted pedagogic, tutoring and teacher-student interaction, distributed project collaboration methodology, and industry collaboration. Findings and experiences are illustrated with examples from MII course contents and student project works.
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