Bridging between archaeologists and civil engineers via e-learning

Abstract

Interaction between archeologists and civil engineers has become one of the critical issues in construction planning and management as the scale of infrastructure construction increases with the needs of increasing population. Unfortunately, such a topic is not covered by any university curriculum neither at undergraduate nor graduate level. In order to fill this gap, a Leonardo da Vinci (LdV) project entitled: “Archaeology and Construction Engineering Skills (ACES)" was started in 2007 and completed in November 2009. The main aims of the project are to deepen and broaden professional understandings between two professional sectors – civil engineers and archaeologists. A vocational training course and handbooks were prepared in four languages as part of the project. The training is conducted in an assisted distance training mode. It means all training materials are provided online and the training process is supervised by a teacher. The training process is composed of a lecture and discussion forum. This paper presents the results of the project.