What is your opinion about e-learning, online courses and webinars in groundwater and environmental problems? Are they worthy? Any suggestions?
I think there is a great interest in the proposed actions and groundwater is a growing field of research in great part due to the EU regulations and future tackling of CC effects. I'm particularly interested in e-courses on groundwater ecology, environmental management and translation of scientific outputs into the industrial management context.
Chris Dede's work at Harvard created wonderful immersive environments for older high school students to study the effects of environment on ecosystems. Follow http://ecomuve.gse.harvard.edu/publications/MediaInTransition09VWfEfinal.pdf and the River City MUVE http://muve.gse.harvard.edu/rivercityproject/
http://muve.gse.harvard.edu/rivercityproject/
I think there are some online courses available at http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
There are also resources available from USGS: http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/pubs/resources_external.pdf
I think if there are webinars available online based on recent work in these fields, that would be really great.
Guidance on groundwater modeling is better when received 1 on 1 by an instructor because it is more difficult to pass on experience through these online classes that generally do not provide a way to teach the real experience and what to do in specific real problems.
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