Article of the Month - October 2022
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Overview of the PBL in Geodesy, Geoinformatics and Transport
Engineering Education
Jelena GABELA, Guenther RETSCHER, Georg GARTNER and Andrea BINN,
Austria, Vassilis GIKAS and Ioanna SPYROPOULOU, Greece, Regine GERIKE,
Germany, Rangajeewa RATNAYAKE, Amila BUDDHIKA JAYASINGHE, Loshaka
PERERA, Pradeep KALANSOORIYA, RMM PRADEEP, Choolaka HEWAWASAM, Thilantha
DAMMALAGE and Vipula ABEYRATNE, Sri Lanka
Key words: Education, Geodesy, Geoinformatics, Problem Based
Learning, Transport Engineering.
SUMMARY
In 2021, the three-year Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher
Education (CBHE) project LBS2ITS, short for ‘Curricula Enrichment for
Sri Lankan Universities Delivered Through the Application of
Location-based Services to Intelligent Transport Systems’, started with
the aim to introduce and/or update education at four partner
universities in Sri Lanka in the LBS (Location-based Services) domain.
The level of education in LBS in Sri Lanka is still in its infancy and
cannot rapidly deliver the knowledge inputs required to change transport
management decision-making in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
Modern education methods, such as e-learning and Problem-based learning
(PBL), must play a central role in the newly developed courses and
course modules. Thereby, syllabi and course contents are developed on
the lesson level. The outcome will be a digital learning environment
supporting synthetic and real-world learning experiences which encourage
self-paced learning modules with digital resource kits for interaction
with modern equipment, continuous assessment and two-way feedback.
Webinars and virtual experiences will underpin real-world PBL scenarios.
In this paper, the results of a workshop on e-learning and PBL pedagogy
are presented. Examples for PBL courses in geodesy, geoinformatics and
transport engineering from the literature and the seven participating
project partners underpin the feasibility of the introduction of these
new education methods.
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