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Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

30.12.2011

Herausgeber

David Unwin + weitere

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

496

Maße (L/B/H)

25,1/17,3/2,5 cm

Gewicht

1134 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-470-74856-5

Beschreibung

Rezension

"Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology inHigher Education is a timely and invaluable resource written for awide audience by leading teacher-scholars in the field ofGeographic Information Science and Technology(GIS&T)." ( Photogrammetric Engineering andRemote Sensing , 1 June 2013) "I highly recommend the essential and definitive book TeachingGeographic Information Science and Technology in HigherEducation edited by David J. Unwin, Kenneth E. Foote,Nicholas J. Tate, and David DiBiase, to any academics and studentsin GIS&T and related disciplines, industry trainers in the useof GIS&T, faculty in other fields, public policy makersinterested in learning more about the subject matter, and membersof general public seeking a complete guide to teaching and learningleading edge principles and technologies in GIS&T. This book isunique and a source of discussion for the future of education ingeneral, and GIS&T pedagogy in particular." ( Blog Business World , 6 January 2012)

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

30.12.2011

Herausgeber

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

496

Maße (L/B/H)

25,1/17,3/2,5 cm

Gewicht

1134 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-470-74856-5

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • About the editors ix
     
    List of contributors xi
     
    Foreword xv
     
    Editors' preface xvii
     
    SECTION I GIS&T IN THE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM - INTRODUCTION 1
     
    1 GIS&T in higher education: challenges for educators, opportunities for education 3
    Kenneth E. Foote, David J. Unwin, Nicholas J. Tate and David DiBiase
     
    2 Making the case for GIS&T in higher education 17
    Diana S. Sinton
     
    3 The internationalization of Esri higher education support, 1992-2009 37
    Michael Phoenix
     
    4 Reflections on curriculum development in the US and abroad: from core curriculum to body of knowledge 47
    Karen K. Kemp
     
    SECTION II ISSUES IN CURRICULUM AND COURSE DESIGN 61
     
    5 Using the GIS&T Body of Knowledge for curriculum design: different design for different contexts 63
    Steven D. Prager
     
    6 Scope and sequence in GIS&T education: learning theory, learning cycles and spiral curricula 81
    Kenneth E. Foote
     
    7 Building dynamic, ontology-based alternative paths for GIS&T curricula 97
    Marco Painho and Paula Curvelo
     
    8 Addressing misconceptions, threshold concepts, and troublesome knowledge in GIScience education 117
    Matthew Bampton
     
    9 Active pedagogy leading to deeper learning: fostering metacognition and infusing active learning into the GIS&T classroom 133
    Richard B. Schultz
     
    10 Where to begin? Getting started teaching GIS&T 145
    Eric West
     
    11 Issues in curriculum and course design: discussion and prospect 159
    Kenneth E. Foote
     
    SECTION III PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING GIS&T 165
     
    12 The University of Minnesota master of geographic information science (MGIS) program: a decade of experience in professional education 167
    Susanna A. McMaster and Robert B. McMaster
     
    13 Geospatial education at US community colleges 185
    Ann Johnson
     
    14 The GIS Professional Ethics project: practical ethics for GIS professionals 199
    David DiBiase, Francis Harvey, Christopher Goranson and Dawn Wright
     
    15 An exploration of spatial thinking in introductory GIS courses 211
    Injeong Jo, Andrew Klein, Robert S. Bednarz and Sarah W. Bednarz
     
    16 Teaching spatial literacy and spatial technologies in the digital humanities 231
    David J. Bodenhamer and Ian N. Gregory
     
    17 Discussion and prospect 247
    David J. Unwin
     
    SECTION IV DIGITAL WORLDS AND TEACHING GIS&T 255
     
    18 Virtual geographic environments 257
    Gary Priestnall, Claire Jarvis, Andy Burton, Martin Smith and Nick J. Mount
     
    19 Using web-based GIS and virtual globes in undergraduate education 289
    Lynn Songer
     
    20 Trying to build a wind farm in a national park: experiences of a geocollaboration experiment in Second Life 301
    Nick J. Mount and Gary Priestnall
     
    21 From location-based services to location-based learning: challenges and opportunities for higher education 327
    David M. Mountain
     
    22 GIS is dead, long live GIS&T: an educational commentary on the opening of Pandora's Box 345
    Nicholas J. Tate
     
    SECTION V DISTANCE AND E-LEARNING 359
     
    23 Media and communications systems in cartographic education 361
    William Cartwright
     
    24 UNIGIS - networked learning over a distance 383
    Josef Strobl
     
    25 The Esri Virtual Campus 395
    Nick Frunzi
     
    26 Delivering GIScience education via blended learning: the GITTA experience 405
    Robert Weibel, Patrick L¨uscher, Monika Niederhuber, Thomas Grossmann and Susanne Bleisch
     
    27 GIS&T in the open educational resources movement 421
    David DiBiase
     
    28 Experiences in 'e' and 'distance-' learning: a personal account 439
    David J. Unwin
     
    CONCLUSION 451
     
    29 Ways forward for GIS&T education 453
    David DiBiase, Kenneth E. Foote,