Abstract
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, distance learning had to be increasingly implemented at universities, and more e-learning formats had to be applied. The LBS2ITS project carried out under the lead of the Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation at TU Wien (TUW), Austria, came at the right time for these tasks. Education in Location-Based Services (LBS) is put to a new level including interactive e-learning and Problem-Based Learning (PBL) pedagogy. In the courses modernization, special attention is paid to the development and/or update of the courses to be implemented with these two pedagogic forms. Thus, teaching with an emphasis on learning outcomes is a central theme in the LBS2ITS project. To achieve this goal, the active verbs used in updated Bloom’s taxonomy for teaching on learning outcomes, i.e., remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating, are applied to achieve the six levels of thinking and the active nature of learning. LBS2ITS will build a fully immersive and integrated LBS teaching and learning experience with the LBS application of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in mind. The outcome will be an innovative digital learning environment supporting synthetic and real-world PBL learning experiences. In the course of the project, a workshop for introduction of these new developments was held. This paper provides an insight into the results and experiences from this workshop. As e-learning and PBL must be combined and integrated nowadays, the new term PBeL (Problem-Based e-Learning) is proposed and introduced in this paper. The development of this approach and background information on the theory and the LBS2ITS project are presented.
Highlights
Many teachers are still struggling with the distance learning experiences from the beginning of 2020 when everything changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic
This idea originated after a workshop on Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and distance learning held in September 2021, which was held for the members of the Location-based Services to Intelligent Transport Systems (LBS2ITS) project
An introduction to the PBL process may be beneficial in that case, as it was done in [13], where the students first learned about PBL and their role was defined
Summary
Many teachers are still struggling with the distance learning experiences from the beginning of 2020 when everything changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is beneficial for the partner country Sri Lanka because it will help reform and improve education by transferring education experiences and modern technologies It will promote the internationalization of the education system and implement more advanced quality assurance (QA), introduce PBL pedagogy, and modernize e-learning tools. All these improvements are leading to an enrichment of the course modules and courses taught in line with priorities in the education of Geomatics and Transport Engineering students.
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