Report

• The specific projects are:
• Information dissemination concerning the virtual academy issues relevant to FIG, by
• collecting hyperlinks to web sites relevant for distance learning in surveying education and
• creating an educational database on Internet as it regards respective tools and experiences; and
• to establish contacts with the Internet/multimedia experts outside FIG.
• The Working Group was established during the FIG XXII Congress in Washington in 2002 and it is in large a continuation of the respective WG of the period 1998-2002.
• Previous reports:  wg22_2002.htm,  wg22_2001.htm
• During the four year period of 2003-2004, following meetings are planned so far for WG 2.2 to contribute:
• FIG Congress 2006, Munich, Germany
• FIG Working Week 2005, Cairo, Egypt
• FIG Working Week 2004, 23-28 May, Athens, Greece
• Workshop on "Virtual Academy for the Surveying Community"
• Optical 3D Measurement Techniques, 22-25 September 2003, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• FIG Working Week 2003, 13-17 April, Marne la Vallée, Paris, France
•  http://www.fig.net/figtree/events/ww_2003/program_final.htm
• People
• References
• FIG Commission 2 Work Plan 2003-2006
• Policy issues
• Specific projects

Meetings

• Workshop on "Virtual Academy for the Surveying Community"'
• We plan to organize a Workshop in conjuction of the FIG Working Week 2004, 23-28 May, Athens, Greece
• The framework for the workshop will be:
• Section A: Learning theory
• Section B: Tools and technologies for learning
• Section C: New tools for the disciplines within geomatics
• Section D: Examples
• Appendice I: Vocabulary
• Appendice II: Dictionary
• The aim is to publish the edited version of the proceedings and hand it over to the FIG Congress in 2006.
• Optical 3D Measurement Techniques, 22-25 September 2003, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Special session on "Education and Training"
• Proposed: Pedro J. Cavero, Henrik Haggrén, Esben Munk Sørensen Activities of FIG Commission 2 on education
• http://foto.hut.fi/publications/paperit/hhaggren/Optical_3D_Zurich_2003/Paper.htm
• FIG Working Week and 125th Anniversary in Paris, France 13-17 April 2003

People

New members are welcome!

Policy issues

• movement from discrete computer assisted learning (CAL) tools towards an integrated virtual learning environment
• technical, political, legal, organisational and cultural problems
• copyright and accreditational problems
• the role of the lecturer and human communication in general

Specific projects

• establish an Internet forum for discussion of the virtual academy (links to the development of education database)
• collect experiences from universities which have already introduced distance learning
• disseminate information about distance learning to universities which are starting to introduce the techniques
• co-operation with Commission 3 on distance education and training in geoinformatics and with all other commissions as regards distance education and training in the disciplines they represent
• establish contacts with the Internet/multimedia experts outside FIG
• set up a homepage with hyperlinks to Web sites for distance learning relevant to surveying education