- Develop innovative resources for teaching the fundamentals in engineering geomatics. - Improve e-learning tools with a focus on calculus exercises, saving on office hours (teaching staff). - Increase the students’ autonomy in learning and in doing exercises by themselves. - Facilitate the creation of datasets for the exercises.

1. Enhancement of e-learning in geomatics ISPRS Commission VI Mid-Term Symposium Cross-Border Education for Global Geo-information 3 June 2010 , ITC Enschede , The Netherlands Session 04: E-Learning methods and tools Arnaud DESHOGUES and Pierre-Yves GILLIERON, Switzerland by the integration of dynamic mathematics’ tools http://topo.epfl.ch/exomatic/

3. The Context - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne includes 6 Faculties and offers many bachelor, master and PhD programs, altogether over 6'000 students. - The funding program FIFO is encouraging the development of resources for training and testing of learning scenarios. - Focus on a specific domain of teaching: “Fundamentals of Geomatics”.

4. The Geomatics Course... Positioning of the basic course in the engineering geomatics domain. Evolution of the number of students taking part in the basic course.

5. Structure of the course … Towards e-teaching

6. Motivations for the development - Develop innovative resources for teaching the fundamentals in engineering geomatics. - Improve e-learning tools with a focus on calculus exercises, saving on office hours (teaching staff). - Increase the students’ autonomy in learning and in doing exercises by themselves. - Facilitate the creation of datasets for the exercises.

8. … to adjust the program and implement specific tools.

9. Development and Implementation Current system concept and software design LMS : Moodle Database : MySQL, phpMyAdmin Script languages : Php, Javascript, JQuery Interactive Geometry Software : Geogebra

10. Structure of Exomatic Information flow and process

11. Demonstration Conception Conception of the Geogebra base file. Construction of the datasets and the exercise WebPages Online exercise Exomatic exercise’ steps Interactive Geometry Software Results, hints, methods and calculus toolboxes Administration Students’ statistics and program activity http://topo.epfl.ch/exomatic/ Access to the Exomatic exercises:

12. – in different ways … Stepwise construction

13. – in different ways … Visualisation of formulas

14. Example of calculus toolboxes

15. – in different ways … Generation of datasets (admin) 1

16. Students uses

17. Students uses in preparation for the test