Kyoto University has developed a video teaching material that allows you to experience fieldwork in Japan and overseas, and published it on its website.The aim is to motivate students who have no experience in fieldwork to learn by taking measures after being forced to practice fieldwork and review the program due to the corona.
According to Kyoto University, forests, the sea, large-scale infrastructure, research facilities of Kyoto University, etc., such as the experimental forest / Kamigamo experimental site in Kita-ku, Kyoto City and the Amagase Dam in Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture, are visualized with aerial photography by drone. , The faculty member is adding commentary.There is also an example in which a senior student who did fieldwork in the field before the Corona disaster digitized the survey record and edited the video for the junior students.
Students who saw the forest images of the Kamigamo Experimental Station commented that they wanted to actually go to the site in the future.
These video teaching materials are attracting attention from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and private companies as they can reproduce educational and research sites with a sense of reality while ensuring the safety of students and faculty members.In the future, it will be used for short-term programs with schools with overseas agreements and study abroad fairs in Japan.
Since the 1960s, Kyoto University has been actively promoting overseas fieldwork centered on ASEAN member countries in Southeast Asia.However, due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, overseas travel is restricted and the fieldwork program is being reviewed.
