EDUCATION ON PHOTOGRAMMETRY AT HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

摘要

In Finland, the education on photogrammetry has been an essential part of the surveying curriculum. Traditionally it has been organized only on the academic level. In this paper we describe the current curriculum regarding the education on photo grammetry and remote sensing at Helsinki University of Technology, TKK. We will also present some experiences in applying modem learning theory based on progressive inquiry in order to provide parts of our education to primary and secondary schools. Beginning in Fall 2005, the surveying curriculum at TKK will be arranged according to the new European academic two-phase structure, or the so-called Bologna agreement. The main change will be the division of the former Master's studies to two consecutive phases, which will be three years' Bachelor's studies and two years' Master's studies. Within surveying, the Bachelor's curriculum will have two programme options, one for real estate economics, and one for geomatics. Geomatics will further divide into two parallel options, one for geoinformatics, and one for geodesy and photo grammetry. During the Master's programme, photogrammetry will specialize in both photogrammetry and remote sensing. Within the new academic curricula, the education has been organized in modules, which build vertical learning chains in a progressive manner. Within photogrammetry, we have made first experiments in progressive learning with pre-academic generations, i.e. within primary and secondary schools. There the tasks have been in understanding the central perspective and photography and to apply it to digital imaging and stereoscopy. The subjects we have dealt with have been biology, physics, mathematics, informatics and geography.