"Blended" or "hybrid" learning is a significant trend in professional surveying education. It inv... more "Blended" or "hybrid" learning is a significant trend in professional surveying education. It involves a mix of face-to-face learning and online learning. While blended learning is challenging to implement it offers many benefits and, when carefully developed, provides a range of learning options that suit many student learning styles and approaches. A key characteristic is that digital learning or training materials can be shared and easily adapted for use in many contexts.
There is a significant trend in Surveying professional education towards "blended" or &... more There is a significant trend in Surveying professional education towards "blended" or "hybrid" learning that involves a mix of face-to-face learning and online learning. We are also seeing similar development in training and continuing professional development. While blended learning is challenging to implement it offers many benefits and, when carefully developed, provides a range of learning options that suit many student learning styles and approaches. A key characteristic is that digital learning or training materials can be shared and easily adapted for use in many contexts.
Summary It has been clear for some time, at least from the evidence presented at a number of FIG ... more Summary It has been clear for some time, at least from the evidence presented at a number of FIG events, that the profession is changing with a huge number of recognised competencies. This raises fundamental questions for the global surveying profession that include: what core subjects should be encompassed in educational curricula; how can we attract and educate new recruits into the profession; how should we market the core surveying competencies; and how can we address the demographics of an aging profession? Different parts of the world report a range of major challenges, including low student numbers, closure of surveying courses, an aging teaching profession, inadequate job opportunities in some locations with an insufficient supply of graduates to fill the vacancies in others. Overarching these is the lack of any clear international recognition of definition of the profession of “surveyors’’ for the 21 st century. Thus we risk failure to promote, at a global level, the full r...
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