Work Plan 2007-2010
Commission 2
Original
work plan in .pdf-format.
Title
Professional Education
 Prof.
Bela Markus, Chairperson of Commission 2.
Terms of reference
- Curriculum development
- Learning and teaching methods and technologies
- Educational management and marketing
- Continuing professional development
- Networking in education and training
Mission Statement
- Promoting good practices
- Endorsing universities and other educational organisations to explore
the needs of society and to manage in a pro-active way the necessary
changes in the “knowledge age”.
- Supporting academic institutions and industry with new methods of
knowledge management, helping surveyors continuously to update their
academic and professional profiles.
- Advancing educational business and curriculum tuning processes.
- Promoting content development experiences, facilitating international
researches in surveying education and training and to initiate joint
projects on this field (curriculum development, educational material
development, joint courses, quality assurance etc.).
- Strengthening knowledge transfer between FIG Commissions, inspiring
activities on knowledge networks.
- Improving dissemination of information on educational theory and
practice to the members across the world.
- Reinforcing contacts to Educational Commissions of International
Organisations on the related professions, including the International
Cartographic Association (ICA), the International Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), the Association of Geographic
Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) and the International
Association of Geodesy (IAG).
General
The Commission 2 Work Plan 2007-2010 building on the experiences of the
previous period tries to fulfill and implement the FIG Council Work Plan.
Commission 2 in general aims
- To develop further the FIG Educational database and facilities using
educational and internet standards
- To organize annual workshops on actual topics related to education and
training
- To investigate the use of information and communication technology to
support networked professional education.
- To organise jointly International / Regional Summer Schools for solving
problems, filling educational gaps and for building communities within young
professionals
The mission and aims will be realized by the following Working Groups:
WG 2.1 "Curriculum development"
Quality curriculum and instruction are - as they have always been - the
bedrock of education and the way to developing thoughtful and fulfilled
professionals. The society, science and technology around our profession are
changing rapidly. These changes continuously generate new educational and
training needs, which should be responded by educators to ensure that their
learners gain knowledge as effectively and efficiently as possible.
WG 2.2 "e-Learning"
To successfully disseminate the knowledge, it is essential to have an
up-to-date learning environment. Thanks to the development in information and
communication technologies, there have been lots of possibilities and tools
re-engineer the classical teaching methods. Because of e-Learning methods are
expected to play an increasing role in professional education there is a growing
need for knowledge transfer on this field.
WG 2.3 "Educational Management and Marketing"
Knowledge dissemination is not only a methodological / technical problem.
Institutes have to own the rights how the published materials may be available
for others as well as taking commercial aspects into account. According to the
rapidly changing world and demands in professional education business-based
survey can help us to manage successful curricula.
WG 2.4 "Real estate Valuation and Management Education"
This is a joint with Commission 9 to ensure the surveying education keeps up
with the rapidly changing field.
By the end of period 2006-2010 Commission 2 will deliver a publication on
‘The Future of Surveying Education’. This will be the main outcome of the four
years of activity and will include topics such as:
- Needs analysis
- Curriculum development
- Methods
- Web services
- Knowledge pool
- Experiences in Continuing Professional Development and Life-long
Learning
- Educational SDI
- Meta-database
- Global and Regional Networks
- Marketing
- Best practices
To support the development of the publication, the Commission will also
conduct:
- Workshops
- Summer Schools
- Joint Projects.
In addition to the specific activities above, the Commission will support and
contribute to FIG Task Forces and the Standards Network. The Commission will
also respond to the FIG Council to address new issues as they emerge.
Working Group 2.1 - Curriculum development
Policy issues
- To support the mobility among professionals, teaching staff and
students using credit transfer.
- To support the implementation of „Bologna” changes (BSc / MSc / PhD /
Professional masters) and recognition.
- To facilitate the harmonization of curricula.
- To define a “core knowledge base”.
- To guarantee life-long learning with educational and training
services.
- To serve the needs in the new professional challenges.
- To exchange ideas on Quality Management and Accreditation.
Chair
Specific projects
Workshops
- 7-9 June, 2007 - Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
Final report
- It will be given during the Congress in Sydney.
Working Group 2.2 – e-Learning
Policy issues
- To explore the movement from traditional face-to-face teaching towards an
integrated learning environment, the changing role of the academic staff.
- To discuss the technical, political, legal, organisational and cultural
problems of e-Learning.
- To exchange experiences on content development methods (Multimedia, CBT,
Quizzes etc) and student support (Virtual Club / Library, Communication
techniques, Teamwork tools).
- To identify the Educational Portal functions
- To disseminate Educational Metadata
Chair
Workshops
- June 2008 - Enschede (Netherlands)
Final report
- It will be given during the Congress in Sydney.
Working Group 2.3 - Educational Management and Marketing
Policy issues
- To observe and register the new challenges of our profession respond
to them.
- To survey the needs for academic members and provide required
services.
- To analyse the market and respond by LLL services.
- To promote the need on CPD (Continuous Professional Development).
- To disseminate experiences in recruitment and marketing.
- To distribute know-how in Project and Quality Management.
- To encourage young surveyors (students) on their career.
- To serve ALUMNI and use its power.
- To build twinning and thematic networks.
Chair
Workshops
- June 2009 - Vienna (Austria)
Final report
- It will be given during the Congress in Sydney.
Working Group 2.4 - Real Estate Valuation and Management
Education (Joint WG with Commission 9)
Policy issues
- Surveyors are traditionally well educated to basics of real estate
legislation and markets. In the present world requirements for knowledge
in real estate are expanding fast. It is not anymore possible to educate
surveyors to all traditional tasks in unified programs but the programs
have to have real options where students can really specialise in real
estate economics. This is needed in the market (thousands of new jobs)
and examples of some countries show that this kind of education is
possible and also very attractive for students and markets.
Chair
Prof. Arvo Vitikainen
Helsinki, FINLAND
E-mail: arvo.vitikainen@tkk.fi
Co-Chair
Final report
- It will be given during the Congress in Sydney.
Communication
Newsletters
Commission 2 will inform its delegates and member associations via Commission
newsletter.
Calendar of Events
- Workshop on Curriculum Development
Scientia Est Potentia - Knowledge is power. FIG Commission 2 Symposium.
7-9 June 2007, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
Web site:
http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz/
- Workshop on e-Learning, June 2008, Enschede (Netherlands)
- Workshop on Educational management and marketing, June 2009, Vienna,
Austria
Commission Officers
Commission Chair and Chair of WG 2.1
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Prof. Bela Markus
Faculty of Geoinformatics
University of West Hungary
Pirosalma u. 1-3
P.O. Box 52
H-8000 Szekesfehervar
HUNGARY
Tel. + 36 22 516 523
Fax + 36 22 516 521
E-mail: fig2@geo.info.hu |
Vice Chair of Administration
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Tamas Jancso
Faculty of Geoinformatics
University of West Hungary
Pirosalma u. 1-3
P.O. Box 52
H-8000 Szekesfehervar
HUNGARY
Tel. + 36 22 516 522
Fax + 36 22 516 521
E-mail: fig2@geo.info.hu |
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 2.2
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Ir. E.M.C. (Liza) Groenendijk
Lecturer/Instructional Designer
Department for Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management
International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation
(ITC)
P.O.Box 6
7500 AA Enschede
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel. +31 53 4874 528
Fax + 31 53 4874 575
E-mail: groenendijk@itc.nl |
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 2.3
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Mr. Gert Steinkellner
Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying
Schiffamtsgasse 1-3
A-1025 Wien
AUSTRIA
Tel. + 43 1 211 76 4604
Fax + 43 1 216 7550
E-mail: gert.steinkellner@bev.gv.at |
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 2.4
Prof. Arvo Vitikainen
Helsinki University of Technology
Institute of Real Estate Studies
P.O. Box 1200
FIN-02015 HUT
FINLAND
Tel. + 358 9 451 3872
Fax + 358 9 465 077
E-mail: arvo.vitikainen@tkk.fi
5 March 2007 |
