Digi Geo

DigiGeo is over! It has been fantastic 2 years with more than 15 staff members and total of 43 students' participants. Thank you all for your great job. Thanks the EU for the Erasmus+ programme and support. All the project OUTPUTS are now freely available for  download here . Enjoy :-)

The final event opened to all interested colleagues, students, teachers, and other stakeholders... for free. We now have confirmed conference day - 24 May 2023 - and the place -  Fort Science  ( https://what3words.com/cafe.reward.inferior ) in Olomouc. You are welcome to join us at the event, bringing fresh and open minds. Scroll down the webpage to know more. Or register directly now on this link.

The second cycle of the project main activity - DigiGeo summer school - is taking place in Olomouc from 24 to 28 April 2023. Together with 24 students, we'll be exploring and experiencing modern tools and techniques for GIScience teaching in digital/online/e-environment. You can have a taste of the programme  here. 

The last of the project's "Best Practices" workshop was organized in Bochum (Germany) from 31 January to 2 February. We experienced fourth demonstration and show-case on how online/virtual teaching has been conducted at one of the partners' institution. During fruitful three days of the workshop, we were also informed about various teaching projects ran at RUB, which gave us a lots of inspiration for future collaboration of the consortium. We also started planning the DigiGeo virtual exchanges, summer school, and final conference.

The second cycle of the project started with a project meeting and workshop in Turku (Finland) from 26 to 30 September. In addition to planning upcoming project events and project management, a workshop on geoscience education topics was organised at the University of Turku (UTU). Furthermore, the project team visited Lounaistieto (Regional Geographical Information Network) funded by Regional Council of Southwest Finland and other stakeholders. This was followed by an intensive multi-day project team meeting in Seili island, which focused on the Intellectual Outputs of the project.

As a conclusion of the first cycle of the DigiGeo project, we organized 5-days summer school in Olomouc (Czechia) from 25 to 29 April. All staff team members together with 20 student participants explored methods and tools for digital transition of geospatial learning and teaching. During a series of workshops and training sessions, participants learned about the possibilities of digital tools that can be used to design lessons and, of course, to deliver them. Then, under the guidance of the team members, the students created their own design for an optimal lesson in geoinformatics and related disciplines in a hackathon. Everything was finally documented in the form of a compendium with a detailed description of the activities.

We were able to organize workshop for staff members, in Vienna (21-23 April), where our Austrian colleagues shared the best practices of digital/online/virtual teaching during covid-19 times. Moreover, we were informed how TUWeL (TUW e-learning system based on Moodle platform) is implemented and used even after return to physical teaching. Right after the worshop, the whole team moved to Olomouc for the DigiGeo summer school.

Students are welcome to join the project activities. We look for four highly motivated students from each university (20 in total) to participate on virtual exchanges and then enjoy the summer school in Olomouc (late April 2022).

Unfortunately, we had to postpone workshop in Vienna to April due to the pandemic situation.

Workshop in Trondheim (Norway). Our colleagues from NTNU hosted the first "Best practices" workshop, showing us how they teach online/digital, what can be done in virtual reality, and most importantly how to use various tools to create virtual excursions. Here is a small taste of one virtual excursion in the topic "sensory mapping" we created during the workshop (ideally using VR glasses) -  https://www.thinglink.com/video/1497879983077457922 

Virtual Kick-off meeting. The very first moment where all team members met each other. We set up roles and responsibilities, plan future events, and discuss project content. Very productive online meeting.