Proyectos de Investigación

Interactive understanding of groundwater hydrology and hydrogeology (iNUX)

Due to the global pandemic, the global majority of learning and teaching activities in higher education went to virtual and mostly digital environments. All involved actors implemented initial and individual materials and approaches to handle the situation, for example, audio-enhanced presentation slides, video demonstrations, and electronic quizzes and questions for assessment. The project addresses the teaching subject ‘Groundwater and Hydrogeology’, which combines physics based theory like groundwater flow equations with applied methods like performing pumping tests and well observations in the field.

Interactive understanding of groundwater hydrology and hydrogeology (iNUX)

Objetivos

Consequently, the main objectives of the project are:

✔️ To achieve effective cooperation and collaboration between leading universities in the field of groundwater science and hydrogeology in order to produce interactive learning and teaching material.

✔️ To produce interactive learning and teaching material with a specific focus on hydrogeological field methods in order to address current and future limitations in the field of learning and teaching applied hydrogeology (e.g. limited access due to the current pandemic but also due to limited resources).

✔️ To generate learning and teaching material that covers the standard basic theory and methods of groundwater andhydrogeology in a modularized way and, which can be implemented in existing teaching activities (of the partners and third parties) as an additional or alternative approach.

✔️ To review and document learning and teaching methods with a focus on groundwater and hydrogeology and under consideration of the global learning and teaching culture.

✔️ To generate course material for two advanced topics, namely (1) numerical groundwater modeling and (2) Managed aquifer recharge that extends and advances the basic material.

Impactos

Currently, digital learning and teaching activities can partly address the intended competencies with a focus on theoretical knowledge. On the contrary, there is a high demand for digital learning and teaching material, which addresses applied Hydrogeology like laboratory and field experiments in order to overcome current limitations, for example, due to access restrictions.