Working professionals come back to education for many reasons. To ensure we are fulfilling the needs of these returning students, educators should create learning environments that are flexible, stimulating, and enable students to develop a wide range of competencies relevant to their work in geospatial technologies and spatial data science. In this session we would like to initiate discussions on ways to advance our current learning models to ensure their relevance for working professionals, and to consider approaches that will succeed in online and residential learning environments.

Presenters:

• Justine Blanford, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Guido Cervone, Pennsylvania State University
• Anthony Robinson, Pennsylvania State University