Activity 11 :

First Offer of the Distance Education Course

Trial Run of the Distance Education course at ITC Netherlands

Offer of the Distance Education course to the faculty members, staff and post-graduate    students of the selected universities

The second trial run of the CASITA course on Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment was given from 24 April to 12 May 2006 in the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, the Netherlands. As was concluded in the course development workshop held in Hanoi in November 2005, the course was conducted as a distance education supported course, rather than a full distance education course, where the participants were in different locations. In this activity, participants were in the same location, which greatly improved the possibilities for interaction between the participants, and allowed direct interaction with teaching staff especially concerning the computer exercises. All of the training materials were made available on the Internet, through the Blackboard software for educational support.  Part of the lectures were done using Internet using MSN Messenger, and through videoconferencing. There were 23 participants in the course, coming from 10 different countries. Among them were 4 participants from the CASITA partner Gadjah Mada University and 7 from the CASITA partner Indian Institute of Remote Sensing. The course was jointly conducted between ITC staff and ADPC staff.

See < Report Distance Education Course >