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

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Introduction

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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