This session is a part of the 2020 UCGIS Symposium. It was recorded on Tuesday June 2, 2020.

Working professionals come back to education for many reasons. To ensure we are fulfilling the needs of these returning students, educators should create learning environments that are flexible, stimulating, and enable students to develop a wide range of competencies relevant to their work in geospatial technologies and spatial data science. In this session we would like to initiate discussions on ways to advance our current learning models to ensure their relevance for working professionals, and to consider approaches that will succeed in online and residential learning environments.

As we have all had to move to an online education we have modified this session to include a panel discussion that will cover normal vs. crisis mode for online education, and reflections on supervising students.

Presenters:

Justine Blanford, University of Twente, Netherlands
Guido Cervone, Pennsylvania State University
Anthony Robinson, Pennsylvania State University
Laura Harding, Engineer Research and Development Center, and Penn State University
Mark Prettyman, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, and Penn State University