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(Heipke, 2004) and then used for improvements of the courses
in 2004. Only a short summary of the experiences will be given
here. All of the responses from the course in 2002 judged that
the courses were useful, and most of the responses indicated
that the goals for the courses have been achieved. All wrote that
the course material was appreciated and that additional
hardcopy material was useful. The majority managed the
installation of the communication software "FirstClass" (FC)
without difficulties. Firewalls at some organisations, however,
called for the browser version of FC. The combination of
introductory seminar and e-learning was answered positively by
71%. The question about participation in a new course was
answered with a yes in 73% of the responses. As a matter of
fact, the course in 2004 had also a few participants from the
year 2002. The experiences from all four e-learning courses in
2004 will first be available at the time of the XXth ISPRS
congress.
8. CONCLUSION
E-learning will increase considerably in future; there is a big
need in the continuous training of professionals. E-learning
courses have three elements: contents, pedagogy and
technology. All three need proper attention when the courses
are planned. Good courseware is very essential for the success
of e-learning courses. It should be carefully designed by a group
of teachers and be updated with the experiences from its use.
More and more tools are becoming available for the design and
the production of courseware. Interactive learning programs use
learning by doing and they are an important part of the
courseware. They can now be produced more efficiently by
means of authoring tools like Macromedia FLASH MX. More
sophisticated learning programs with on-line computations and
a high flexibility require programming in languages like JAVA.
The described design and production of e-learning courseware
can be applied to other fields as well, and the article can be
considered as a technical guide for e- learning and
implementation of courseware.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author wants to thank B. Norskov for proofreading. Special
thanks go to M. Potucková and E. Jensen, both of Aalborg
University, who assisted the author in the production of the
learning programs "Auto Orient” and "LDIPInter2".
Furthermore, the cooperation with the members of the
EuroSDR task force on education is very much appreciated.
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