Water Education: An E-Learning Platform For Water-Related Competence Development

The Danish water sector needs competence development as a response to changing water management structures and implementation of European legislation, and the number of international students enrolled in at DTU Environment is increasing. Based on their different backgrounds there is a clear need for adaptation and development of the existing courses. To accommodate this, DTU Environment has created an e-learning platform called Water Education, based on the software platform Moodle. It is scheduled to be operational in 2011. Based on the experiences so far, it can be concluded that in some areas major time savings can be obtained during the course execution and increased learning has been documented compared to a traditional classroom teaching on the same topic, but the students’ backgrounds affect their attitude towards e-learning. More recorded lectures are sought and presents a potentially positive way forward.