Educational Experiences for Geomatics Scientific Dissemination

Innovations in geomatics teaching during the COVID-19 emergency

“…The experimentation of new educational strategies by the Laboratory of Geomatics of Genoa University started with several workshop offered to different audiences, mainly dedicated to the altitude measurement and to the photogrammetric technique. They were proposed during didactical events for kids (UniversiKids 2 ), cultural festivals for students from primary to high schools (Festival del Mare 3 ), and for general public (Notte Bianca di Savona), in addition to seminars for citizens (Pint of Science, 4 Mercoledì Scienza by Amici dell'Acquario 5 ), for university students, for senior ("Third Age") university students, and for professionals (Sguerso et al 2020). The educational activities contemplated a theoretical part, where the objectives and motivations were introduced by using posters, videos, and explanations to clarify the main concepts.…”

Project-based Learning in science dissemination with university students of plant biotechnology

“…The current public debate on the use of GM crops accentuates the urgent need to create effective channels of communication between scientists and society at large (Brossard, 2019). Science dissemination has been proposed as an effective pedagogical tool in the classroom to bring complex scientific knowledge closer to both the students who carry out the dissemination activities and the rest of the citizens who receive the results of their dissemination work (Debije et al, 2019;Sguerso et al, 2019). Similarly, the implementation of PBL methodologies in the classroom has been able to improve learning and skills development in subjects closely related to plant biotechnology, such as biology (Salybekova et al, 2021), botany (Jumaheni et al, 2021), biochemistry (Li et al, 2020) or bioengineering (Young et al, 2021), as well as in specific subjects such as plant tissue culture (Martín et al, 2021).…”