Enhancement of e-learning in geomatics by the integration of dynamic mathematics’ tools
- 1. Enhancement of e-learning in geomatics ISPRS Commission VI Mid-Term Symposium Cross-Border Education for Global Geo-information 3 June 2010 , ITC Enschede , The Netherlands Session 04: E-Learning methods and tools Arnaud DESHOGUES and Pierre-Yves GILLIERON, Switzerland by the integration of dynamic mathematics’ tools http://topo.epfl.ch/exomatic/
- 2. Outline The context The Geomatic course toward e-learning Motivations Experience and first assessment Students’ opinion Adjustments Development and implementation of Exomatic System concept and structure Demonstration GeoGebra in different ways Student uses Conclusions and future work
- 3. The Context - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne includes 6 Faculties and offers many bachelor, master and PhD programs, altogether over 6'000 students. - The funding program FIFO is encouraging the development of resources for training and testing of learning scenarios. - Focus on a specific domain of teaching: “Fundamentals of Geomatics”.
- 4. The Geomatics Course... Positioning of the basic course in the engineering geomatics domain. Evolution of the number of students taking part in the basic course.
- 5. Structure of the course … Towards e-teaching
- 6. Motivations for the development - Develop innovative resources for teaching the fundamentals in engineering geomatics. - Improve e-learning tools with a focus on calculus exercises, saving on office hours (teaching staff). - Increase the students’ autonomy in learning and in doing exercises by themselves. - Facilitate the creation of datasets for the exercises.
- 7. Experience and first assessment… Preliminary evaluation of the level of acceptance and the perception of utility of the different resources: First students’ opinion Project history
- 8. … to adjust the program and implement specific tools.
- 9. Development and Implementation Current system concept and software design LMS : Moodle Database : MySQL, phpMyAdmin Script languages : Php, Javascript, JQuery Interactive Geometry Software : Geogebra
- 10. Structure of Exomatic Information flow and process
- 11. Demonstration Conception Conception of the Geogebra base file. Construction of the datasets and the exercise WebPages Online exercise Exomatic exercise’ steps Interactive Geometry Software Results, hints, methods and calculus toolboxes Administration Students’ statistics and program activity http://topo.epfl.ch/exomatic/ Access to the Exomatic exercises:
- 12. – in different ways … Stepwise construction
- 13. – in different ways … Visualisation of formulas
- 14. Example of calculus toolboxes
- 15. – in different ways … Generation of datasets (admin) 1
- 16. Students uses
- 17. Students uses in preparation for the test
- 18. Conclusions - All the online resources are perceived useful by the students and Exomatic is a added value to the course. - The latest statistics shows a strong participation and a very good level of acceptance. - Students’ autonomy is increasing and their co-operation allows us to design further improvements. - The choice of Geogebra is a clear advantage for the course which requires a high level of interactivity.
- 19. Future work - Deeply assessment of Exomatic by the users - Improved the use of graphical tools for teaching - Dissemination within the geomatics community - Create a new group under the wiki pages of Geogebra, to exchange a collection geomatics exercises.
- 20. Arnaud Deshogues +41 (21) 693 27 56 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Geodetic Engineering Laboratory [email protected] Many thanks to the ISPRS Commission VI and thank you for your attention. http://topo.epfl.ch/exomatic/