Putting research results into practice. Beneficiaries Universities and university teachers, individual surveyors. Technical, political, legal, organisational and cultural problems. Copyright and accreditation problems. The role of the lecturer and human communication in general.
Specific projects Establish an Internet forum for discussion of the virtual academy.
Collect experiences from universities which have already introduced distance learning. Disseminate information about distance learning to universities which are starting to introduce the technique. Co-operation with Commission 3 on distance education and training in geoinformatics and with all other commissions as regards distance education and training in the disciplines they represent. Set up a home page with hyperlinks to Web sites for distance learning relevant to surveying education. Virtual workshops and information delivery via the Internet.