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@InProceedings{FerreiraMust:2014:MuEx,
               author = "Ferreira, Hilcea Santos and Mustaro, Pollyana Notargiacomo",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Mackenzie 
                         Presbyterian University}",
                title = "Remote sensing technology online education in Africa: a 
                         multicultural experience",
                 year = "2014",
                pages = "3593--3601",
         organization = "International Technology, Education and Development Conference, 8. 
                         (INTED).",
             keywords = "online education, e-learning, remote sensing, instructional 
                         design, interdisciplinarity, multiculturalism, connectivism.",
             abstract = "The discussion of environmental issues and sustainable development 
                         of society has been growing worldwide in the past decades. The 
                         application of remote sensing - the technology of observing, 
                         collecting and analyzing the data of planet Earth and its 
                         immediate environment from air and space altitudes has enriched 
                         human knowledge of our globe and enhanced our survival therein. 
                         Remote sensing continues to be gainfully employed as major tool of 
                         international cooperation. Most Remote Sensing education programs 
                         worldwide have pointed toward interdisciplinarity, providing a 
                         balanced experience for students spanning the domains of 
                         engineering, theory, data analysis, applications, and policy. 
                         Established in 1984, the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites 
                         (CEOS) coordinates civil space-borne observations of the Earth, 
                         where the participating agencies strive to enhance international 
                         coordination and data exchange and to optimize societal benefit. 
                         Within CEOS, the Working Group on Capacity Building and Data 
                         Democracy (WGCapD) aims at building upon the CEOS Data Democracy 
                         Initiative in an effort to increase the capacity of institutions 
                         in less developed countries for effective use of Earth Observation 
                         data for the benefit of society and to achieve sustainable 
                         development. CEOS Agencies have joined efforts to put forward an 
                         e-learning course named International e-learning course on 
                         Introduction to Remote Sensing Technology. The objective of this 
                         paper is to present the results and lessons learned from this 
                         first initiative for Anglophone countries in Africa. With a 
                         multicultural perception, the article discusses the online 
                         education experience and gives some perspectives on further 
                         developments to be implemented in a possible second version of the 
                         course. The course was free of charge and targeted at University 
                         Lecturers who can enhance the multiplier effect and help preparing 
                         the practitioners to use remote sensing in Earth sciences. The 
                         students came from various backgrounds and application interest 
                         areas. The main goal was to create collaborative learning 
                         opportunities, providing the learners with an appreciation of 
                         current remote sensing issues, the geologic and human processes 
                         that impact remotely-gathered data, and how those processes can be 
                         measured using remote sensing. The 19 voluntary instructors came 
                         from seven space agencies in different countries including 
                         Argentina, Brazil, Austria, France, India, South Africa and the 
                         US. Over 70 people signed up, 30 participated (South Africa, 
                         Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania) throughout the 16 weeks that the 
                         course ran, and 16 undertook all assessments and received the 
                         certificate. Course materials included well-organized tutorials, 
                         selected datasets and internet links. Two live classroom sessions 
                         per week were held, recorded and made available afterwards for 
                         downloading. Students were exposed to a variety of resources, 
                         software tools and datasets, all of open and free access. 
                         Follow-up questionnaires were sent to students and instructors 
                         seeking at information that would enable assessment of the 
                         contribution of the course as well as suggestions for improvement. 
                         Overall, this has been a successful multicultural experience for 
                         accessing education in Remote Sensing in developing countries. 
                         Despite some limitations, the delivery methodology has proved to 
                         be efficient and the outcomes of this online course have been 
                         encouraging to pursue other courses in the future.",
  conference-location = "Valencia, Espanha",
      conference-year = "mar. 10 - 12, 2014",
                label = "self-archiving-INPE-MCTI-GOV-BR",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Artigo_Ferreira_Mustaro_INTED_2014.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "28 mar. 2024"
}


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