New Approach on Teaching Geotechnology
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Geotechnology is the practical application of knowledge especially addressed to geoprocessing. In Brazil, geoprocessing is an emergent field making use of mathematical and computational tools to process geographical information. This field undergoes constant changes and researchers and professionals need to improve their understanding of geosystems and to develop new methods for specific applications to keep up-to-date with the latest technologies. The Image Processing Division (DPI) at INPE (National Institute for Space Research) in a partnership with SELPER – Brazil (Latin American Society of Remote Sensing Experts) have offered some courses aiming at supporting the usage of geotechnology in Brazil. These courses have been taught using a traditional delivery system in a classroom setting with a instructor giving a lesson and students listening and writing notes. Standard educational resources have been utilized, for instance multimedia laboratory, slides and printed material. The demand for courses has been increasing over the past years and we have not been able to satisfy it. In this work we propose to develop Web-based distance learning courses in the geotechnology area, in which all participants can access the information, communicate directly with the instructor and with each other through the Internet. Many e-learning packages have been developed and commercialized around the world. We have chosen Teleduc (from State University of Campinas, SP – Unicamp), a free distributed virtual distance education environment that has been developed since 1996 and through which many courses have been supported. In order to test the efficiency of this system, we have shown an example of one of our basic courses – Introduction to Geoprocessing built in this environment.
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