summaery2020: Projects

Virtual Excursions | ‘Visiting Bangladesh’

Project information

submitted by
Florian Wehking

Co-Authors
Florian Wehking, Mario Wolf, Heinrich Söbke, Prof. Jörg Londong

Mentors
Prof. Jörg Londong, Prof. Eckhard Kraft, Mario Wolf, Heinrich Söbke, Florian Wehking

Faculty:
Civil Engineering

Degree programme:
Environmental Engineering (Master of Science (M.Sc.))

Type of project presentation
Research project

Semester
Summer semester 2020


Contributors:
BMBF - AuCity2
Sonderfonds „Digitalisierung in der Lehre“

Project description

In the summer semester 2020, we intensified our efforts to digitize and prepare the teaching content of field trips using 360° technology within the framework of the BMBF-funded project ‘AuCity2’ in cooperation with the special fund ‘Digitalisierung in der Lehre’.

With this technology we can, for example, create virtual excursions to places to which normally only a small number of students have access. For example, we have created a virtual “short trip” to Bangladesh that deals with the situation of sanitary facilities in an informal settlement in Khulna. Here students can obtain background information on civil engineering in developing countries from the perspective of engineers, which they can otherwise only obtain locally.

As there are a number of cooperation partners (not only from the Faculty of Civil Engineering) all over the world, this technology offers great potential in the future to bring students closer to life in other regions in a subject-related way. The “short trip” to Bangladesh is available under the following link:
yamato.bauing.uni-weimar.de/flo/Bangladesch/

In addition to this desktop application, the use with VR glasses is also possible.

Email: florian.wehking[at]uni-weimar.de

Exhibition Location / Event Location

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