Abstract
The Adaptive Erasmus Mundus Cartography M.Sc. Program in the Covid-19 Pandemic from a Student’s Perspective
Highlights
Online learning undoubtfully reshaped the program, but it is not omnipotent: It cannot replace courses whose main education is in the field, featuring activities such as field mapping, cartographic surveying and high-mountain cartography
Alpine Cartography Field School (ACFS), an important program tradition involving an excursion in the rugged mountain range at Ramsau am Dachstein, took place despite the pandemic, courtesy of a convincing hygiene concept put forward by three teachers from TU Dresden and the low
Participating students perhaps benefitted from completing ACFS during the pandemic in ways they may not have if they did this at a time when there wasn’t a pandemic: Their “soft power” concerning their own and others health was improved when planning for the safest travel to Ramsau am Dachstein, as well as sharing accommodation in small groups
Summary
Online learning undoubtfully reshaped the program, but it is not omnipotent: It cannot replace courses whose main education is in the field, featuring activities such as field mapping, cartographic surveying and high-mountain cartography. Assignments with a thematic focus on the pandemic offered a precious opportunity for students to learn about a problem affecting the entire world.
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