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| Designing and teaching GIS courses for planners in
Greece
Autor: Vasillis Pappas |
| The paper examines the parameters and factors that
affect the core curriculum and didactic methodol-ogy of the
"Geographic Information Systems" course as taught, by the author, at
various University De-partments, across Greece, for almost twenty
years. The methodological assumptions pertaining the ... (read
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| Geoinformatics and problems Environment - in
education
Autor: Klenov, V.I. |
| Geoinformatics in a Moscow college (Education Center
654) is in teaching since 1993 as the 2 years course for 10-11
classes of geographical specialty (about 250 hours). The purpose of
the course is to connect the Geoinformatics with problems of the
Environment. Several computers in provide the course ... (read
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| GI-Education: Use of Standardized Web
Services
Autor: Ingo Simonis |
| This article will discuss the different view of
learning and teaching within the subject of Geoinformatics. On the
basis of the e-learning environment geoinformation.net, the
different views of problem oriented teaching will be described and
illustrated with their realisation in this specific platform. ...
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| GIS education, a global summary
Autor: Michael Phoenix |
| This paper will assess the state of GIS education.
Using information gathered from ESRI’s records, the World-Wide-Web,
and many other scources, the author has attempted to gather enough
information to give us an idea of just where we stand today with
geospatial education. The spread of GIS Education ... (read
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| GIS education: the example of medical
geography
Autor: Jolanta Kijowska |
| Two approaches can be distinguished in medical
geography in Poland, after Mazurkiewicz and Wróbel (1990):
ecological and social. In the opinion of the present author, who
takes the ecological approach, it rests on the well-documented
statement that the distribution of many diseases displays a marked
... (read
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| How to translate GI competences to GI
education?
Autor: Erik Meyles |
| Preliminary results of a ongoing study dealing with
the necessary Geo-information competencies are presented. The demand
of employers for Geo-information specialists and the supply of
educational institutes are related in order to make decisions about
possible changes in the curriculum. ... (read
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| Improving an international GI curriculum by means of
competencies
Autor: Gerrit Epema |
| The Geo-Information Science curriculum of Wageningen
University faces the challenge of influx diversity and the wish to
implement the competence approach. It is explained how the
curriculum is structured with the individual courses and recently
formulated exit and entrance competencies ... (read
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| International Exchange of E-Learning
Courses
Autor: Christoph Brox |
| After expiration of many internationally and
nationally funded e-Learning projects, new models for e-Learning
courses at low costs and high quality are needed. We suggest an
international exchange of e-Learning courses including teaching
personnel. This paper will present a prototypical setting of the ...
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| Location-based learning; lessons
learned
Autor: Ron van Lammeren |
| By the Dutch National project GIPSY a number of
educational experiments concerning wireless learning have been
performed. These experiences dealt with geo-information science
courses. The main educational results of these experiences are
presented. Based on these results a so-called DILICT-matrix ... (read
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| Multimedia GIS E-Lectures in Multicultural Teaching
Context
Autor: Sébastien Gadal |
| This article present the challenges and the problems
that the interactive education implementation within the e-campus
(Campus numérique) framework and more particularly geographic
Information systems (GIS) in a multicultural environment puts
intended for diverse trainings in engineering, geography, ... (read
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| The GIS Education for the Government in the Czech
Republic
Autor: Emil Kudrnovský |
| The main present trend of GIS in the Czech Republic
is the development of the new applications or products for the
maintenance of data and the using of simple analysis by the
government of regions. These applications are named “the information
systems about area”. In the year 2003 were used more then ... (read
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| The potential of the GRID for small scale GIS use: a
proposal from the UK
Autor: Julian Swindell |
| The GRID is seen as the next order of magnitude in
the development of the internet. Its purpose is to give participants
access to bigger databases and more powerful software than could be
run on a single computer. A recent meeting at Cambridge University
in the UK sought to establish ways in which the ... (read
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| The Problem-Based Learning Approach in
Geoinformation: An Example
Autor: Adrijana Car |
| One major characteristic of the curriculum at the
School of Geoinformation at Carinthia Tech Institute (Fachhochschule
Technikum Kaernten) in Villach is project-based learning (PBL). PBL
is performed in form of Project Work modules in the first 6
semesters of the study, on average one day per week. ... (read
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