During the pandemia of COVID-19, field trips were all postponed. However, students still had to graduate at the end of the year. The skills acquired in the field would be missed. Most teachers had to adapt by offering new forms of teaching in the field. Virtual geology, while not a substitute for hammering, can provide alternatives. It can even be very complementary to traditional teaching and even opens up prospects for students with disabilities.
3D geology field visualization could be a solution in geo-education. Virtual and augmented reality will be the next challenge in geology as it will generate large volumes of data ! I am involved in a learning lab in seismic interpretation, based on the relationship with mining and petroleum industries: Kingdom (SMT), Petrel6techlog-Petromod (Schlumberger), Paleoscan (Eliis) etc…
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