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| Title | eduGI (Reuse and Sharing of e-Learning Courses in GI Science Education) |
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| Duration | February 1, 2006 – July 31, 2007 |
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| Background | By contents: Kick-off project eduGI.LA, July 1, 2003 – June 30, 2004, see  , and eduGI.LA 2, December 1, 2005 – November 30, 2007,
By partners: Cooperation of members of the AGILE Education Working Group and eduGI.net |
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| Partners |
ITC Enschede, The Netherlands
U Harokopio, Athens, Greece
UN Lisbon, Portugal
U Münster, Germany (coordinator)
BWU Munich, Germany
U Uppsala, Sweden
TU Vienna, Austria
U West Hungary, Székesfehérvár
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| Mission | Reuse and sharing of e-Learning courses in GI Science education |
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| Objectives |
Many European GI institutes have digital teaching material available. Some already have introduced e-Learning. The project idea is to (re)use existing resources by the exchange of e-Learning courses via the internet. This improves
- Quality of teaching material
- Access to international GI know-how and new topics that the receiving institutes could not offer to their students by own resources
- Virtual mobility of teachers and students across seven European countries
- Re-use of resources already invested in e-Learning (personnel and finances) by a good practice organizational model for sustainable and future-oriented exploitation
- Implementation of the Bologna process by international cooperation of European GI institutes, based on the existing networks
E-Learning of non-GI institutes by best-practice examples. |
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| Approach |
Eight European GI institutes use existing courses and adapt them to the requirements of the e-Learning course exchange. Each partner contributes one course, to be taught on a non-profit exchange basis with the partners. We use the e-Learning platform of ISEGI-UNL, Portugal, successfully providing an e-Learning Master Program in Geographic Information for more than three years. Previous work in the ALFA project eduGI.LA (www.eduGI.net/eduGI.LA/) developed a prototype for the e-Learning course exchange and evidenced feasibility. The organizational framework for execution and recognition of students’ achievements was prepared by the cooperation of the eduGI.net consortium (www.eduGI.net).
We foresee the development and exchange of the following 8 e-Learning courses: Project management, GI standards, Advanced Geospatial data mining, Data acquisition and integration, Visualization, Geographic data bases (advanced), Virtual excursions in Earth Sciences, and Ontology. Each partner provides a course, typically to two partners of the network with 15 students each.
Our vision is to exploit the organizational framework and the created e-Learning courses by the establishment of a common, virtual GI Master Program in Geoinformatics. We will disseminate our concept of sharing and reuse of resources by best-practice examples to non-GI communities. |
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| European Community |
Financial support by the eLearning program, project’s reference: eduGI – EAC/23/05 DE 011. (The eduGI homepage has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this homepage are the sole responsibility of the Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.) |
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| Contact |
Dr. Christoph Brox,
 broxc@uni-muenster.de |
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