Best Paper Award at the ISPRS Commission VI
A. Deshogues with the paper entitled Enhancement of E-learning in Geomatics by the integrartion of dynamic mathematics tools , received the Best Paper Award at the ISPRS Symposium.
International partnerships and consortia for cross border education provide a new setting for the education in this context. Web-based education and distance learning approaches and e-delivery of educational services are developing very fast.
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has introduced a Learning Management System (LMS) based on Moodle. This trend was a source of motivation for our teaching staff who have initiated a project called Exomatic for the enhancement of the basic course in geomatics attended by 200 students from the civil and environmental sections.
The basic concept of Exomatic is a collection of on-line exercises with dynamic graphical figures and smart calculus tools linked together. This platform allows a fully automated correction and evaluation process of the exercises, is appreciated by the teachers thus can save precious time.
Exomatic is mainly based on the interconnection of different resources gathered in a common web interface in order to simplify the tasks for the creation of exercise datasets and for the calculus provided by the students. Exomatic has demonstrated the effectiveness of online dynamics resources in teaching the basic geomatic course.