THE DIGITAL ATLAS OF GALICIAN IN SURVEYING ENGINEERING
EDUCATION
P. Carballo Cruz, M.J. Iniesto Alba
University of Santiago de Compostela
pablocc@usc.es
The
actual European university context within the European Area of Higher Education framework appears like an opportunity for the development
of the university system according with the times and demands of the society.
This common frame is already a reality endorses by the biggest consensuses, and
from the Area of Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry of the
High Polytechnic School of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), we
want to contribute with new ideas to provide with an intellectual,
social and cultural space that satisfies the new expectations.
According
to that, the main reason
for creating this project was to promote and
construct an educative system based on the quality and the transparency, where
the roles teacher (teach) - student (learn) changes, being the student the
attention centre; integrating to the same time, in this qualitative jump, the
use of the information and communication technologies (ICT); permitting with new models of learning the develop of an
opened methodology, flexible and adapted to the individual characteristics of
each student, to facilitate the process of learning based on the interactivity
and the construction of knowledge, applying the acquired knowledge in the other
topics of the degree and improving the teacher-student communication and the
co-operation between teachers, through the accomplishment of a real project,
the Galician Digital Atlas, that combined with efficiency different present and
virtual resources.
This
work describes the characteristics of the Galician Digital Atlas like
integrating tool of the studies of technical engineering in topography and what
it has supposed its use in the improvement of these studies.
Keywords: Atlas, Digital Atlas, Education and trainingin Cartography.