The Commission 2 Work Plan 2007-2010 building on the
experiences of the previous period tries to fulfil and implement
the FIG Council Work Plan. Commission 2 in general aims:
To perform needs analysis of Commission representatives and FIG
Academic members
To develop further the FIG Surveying Education 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 with other Commissions, Regional Summer
Schools for solving problems, filling educational gaps and for
building communities within young professionals.
The mission and aims were realized by the following Working Groups:
Working Group 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.
Working Group 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.
Working Group 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.
Working Group 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.
To support the activities in the working groups Commission also
conducted:
Workshops,
Summer Schools,
initiated Joint Projects.
In addition to the specific activities above, the Commission
contributed to FIG Task Forces and the Standards Network.
Work Plan
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 (ICA, ISPRS, AGILE, IAG etc.)
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:
Prof. Bela Markus
Hungary
mb[at]geo.info.hu
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).
