Good evening everyone Along with just about every other Tertiary institution in the world, the University of Western Australia now requires all teaching to be carried out on line or as a combination of one line and face to face but in this case the option for a student to do the entire course on line must also be provided. I was seeking to initiate some a discussion about how best to teach exploration geophysics on-line.
My teaching is entirely in the southern hemisphere second semester so I have avoided having to do any of this so far but I will be have to teaching units on a whole range of applied geophysics subjects in the next few months. I'm primarily thinking about how best to teach material such as interpretation of seismic data and interpretation of gravity and magnetic images etc. Teaching the other aspects of geophysics is not so different from teaching other science subjects and there is plenty of advice etc on how to do this. But not so on interpretation of geophysical imagery. I'm interested in how other people went about this? What worked and what didn't? Talking to my geology colleagues who faced a related problem, e.g. teaching microscope/thin section petrology on-line, they emphasised the need to have as many worked examples as possible to hand since you cant have the same one-to-one discussion of a students progress such as you can in a laboratory and being able to refer to a suite of examples to some extent mitigates this . That seems to me to a potentially valid approach but its incredibly time consuming to create good materials of this kind. Of course there are lots of on-line resources on say seismic interpretation - but which did people find to be most useful etc - and access to many of these resources is limited to single-user and to members of professional societies etc. Any thoughts and advice from those who have already had to deal with these issues would be much appreciated. Regards Mike Dentith
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