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Training of Ethical Competencies in Bsc Degree Programs – a Digital, Multi-Perspective, and Student-Centered Approach

Mayer, Michael 1; Przybilla, Monika; Kamm, Bettina 2; Krüger, Susanne; Rabold, Jan 1
1 Geodätisches Institut (GIK), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
2 Institut für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung (IPF), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract (englisch):

Degree programs at universities prepare graduates for successful professional activities in society, science and economy (KIT 2021). Therefore, degree programs are well-designed and offer students opportunities for the acquisition of subject-specific and interdisciplinary competencies. Competencies integrate knowledge, skills and attitudes that are applied in order to act successfully (Weinert 2001). Whereby interdisciplinary competencies are subdivided into methodological, social and personal competencies. The latter comprise abilities and attitudes; this also includes the individual ethical awareness. Therefore, universities have to ensure that graduates are offered sufficient opportunities to train, realize, reflect and further develop students’ individual ethical awareness.
Caused by the COVID-19 pandemic the digital transformation of higher education competency acquisition processes was accelerated disruptively and externally motivated. This handling of COVID-19-related consequences of the megatrend ' digitalization ' is partly evaluated as a temporary phenomenon (e.g., Emergency Remote Teaching; Hodges et al. 2020). In this context, the German-language BSc degree program 'Geodesy and Geoinformatics' at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Karlsruhe, Germany) uses the resulting opportunities to create an innovative, digital, multi-perspective, and student-centered teaching/learning concept focusing on ethical awareness (see, e.g. ... mehr


Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Geodätisches Institut (GIK)
Institut für Photogrammetrie und Fernerkundung (IPF)
Publikationstyp Proceedingsbeitrag
Publikationsdatum 01.08.2022
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000150848
Erschienen in XXVII FIG Congress: Volunteering for the future - Geospatial excellence for a better living
Veranstaltung 27. FIG Congress (2022), Warschau, Polen, 11.09.2022 – 15.09.2022
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Schlagwörter Hochschulische Ausbildung, Higher Education; Geodäsie, Geodesy; Young surveyor; Berufsethik, Professional Ethics
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