, Department of Civil Engineering and Coastal Engineering. He has published and presented more than 300 refereed publications. He has received numerous awards including a Senior Fulbright scholar- ship award, teaching awards, best paper awards, community service awards, and admission as an Eminent Engineer into Tau Beta Pi. His research on passive radon-resistant new residential building construction adapted in HB1647 building code of Florida Legislature. Najafi is a member of numerous professional so- cieties and has served on many committees and programs, and continuously attends and presents refereed papers at international, national, and local professional meetings and conferences. Lastly, Najafi attends courses
implementation among Architecture, Engineering,and Construction (AEC) Programs. Researchers have also identified best practices/proceduresimplemented in construction-specific courses to enhance student learning [18, 19]. Researchershave also depicted how new content areas (such as Sustainability, Building Performance, andBuilding Information Modeling) can be implemented using the OLE [20-22]. Thus, one can arguethat educators in the construction programs across the US were familiar with the OLE to a certaindegree. However, in March 2020, almost all universities within the US began calling for closuresand moving to OLE [23]. The transition to OLE was sudden for both the students and educators,especially for educators and programs where face-to-face