GGE Remote: Challenges and Opportunities
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Date
30 Oct 2025
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Organiser
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI) & Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS)
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Time
16:00 - 17:00
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Venue
BC404 Map
Speaker
Dr. Robert KINGDON
Remarks
Prof. Xintao LIU, Associate Professor, LSGI, member of RILS
Summary
We have recently finished the first official full year of GGE Remote, University of New Brunswick’s program to make surveying education accessible to learners across Canada and even worldwide. Initiated in 2021, this hybrid learning program uses an innovative industry partnership model to provide surveying education simultaneously on and off campus. In this presentation we explain how GGE Remote works, share how we’ve overcome some of the associated educational challenges, summarize the current state of the program, and evaluate future prospects.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Robert KINGDON
Associate Teaching Professor and
Chair of the Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering
Department University of New Brunswick, Canada
Dr. Robert Kingdon is a Teaching Professor and Chair of the Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Department at University of New Brunswick, where he also obtained a Bachelor’s degree in 2005 and a PhD in 2012. He is passionate about teaching, and has taught courses in surveying, land administration and geodesy, while supervising graduate studentsin the latter two. He is also passionate about physical geodesy, and has carried out research on geoid and heightsystemsin public and private sectorssince 2004. He has been the main architect of the department’s GGE Remote distance learning initiative, and lovesto talk about challenges and solutions with remote Geomatics education.
