| Distance education for New Zealand technician surveyors: a review of the options (2004) | |||||||||||||
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| Up until 1996 the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand offered the New Zealand Certificate in Surveying by distance education. Since the demise of that programme, the only surveying programmes offered in New Zealand are the Bachelor of Surveying at Otago University in Dunedin, and the National Diploma in Surveying offered through UNITEC in Auckland. There have been repeated calls by sections of the industry for the National Diploma in Surveying to be available throughout New Zealand by distance education. This paper begins with a discussion of the need for the proposed programme, the likely market, and the advantages and disadvantages of offering such a programme. It then discusses the major issues that need to be addressed, and the obstacles to be overcome if such a proposal was to become reality. In doing so it draws on the University of Southern Queensland's experience of offering surveying and GIS programmes by distance education in Australia, and, in partnership with the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, the Bachelor of Engineering Technology programme in New Zealand. The paper concludes by exploring some models that could be used to implement the proposal. | |||||||||||||
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