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Courses on GIS technologies for engineering departments in Russian universities Autor: Vladimir Badenko Results of a study dealing with planning of curricula for engineers with geoinformation skills in Russian technical universities are presented. Demands in such specialists are very high and new curricula in technical universities have changed, in accordance with high growth in such branches of Russian ... (read more) Embedding Time in GIS educational applications. A Greek paradigm Autor: Christos Chalkias An educational practice on teaching the role of time in a GIS project is presented in this paper. The educational application for this purpose is the estimation and mapping of local irradiation on inclined surfaces. Using the digital terrain model of the study area and with the proper user interaction ... (read more) English for Geoinformation: Language Acquisition, Interdisciplinary Learning, and Genre-Based Instruction Autor: Oswald Jochum English has become the world language of scientists and professionals especially in IT-related areas. German is the native language of most students in Carinthia and even if students have had an average of 10 years of formal English instruction when they start their tertiary education, they still need ... (read more) GIS for a small town based on the example of a peripheral element of Poznañ and Oborniki Wielkopolskie Autor: Andrzej Kijowski and Jolanta Kijowska A spatial information system (SIS) of a town is an example of a specialised GIS which is a tool for an efficient management of the town's economy. Such an GIS of a town is based on aerial photographs at various scales. The aerial photographs are used by geography students specialising in environmental ... (read more) GIS teaching for forestry and environmental science students at two universities in Kaunas, Lithuania? Autor: G. Mozgeris and J. Lekavičiūtė Presentation introduces GIS teaching with special focus on environmental applications at two faculties of two universities in Kaunas, Lithuania. The Faculties are Faculty of Environmental Sciences of Vytautas Magnus University and Faculty of Forests of the Lithuanian Agricultural University. GIS study ... (read more) GIS teaching process in the range of interdisciplinary knowledge about natural environment of suburban zone of Poznan Autor: A. Artyszuk The students of Environmental Protection Faculty obtain knowledge in the range of GIS instruction while studying such subjects as: hydrology, hydrogeology, climatology, geomorphology, soil science, remote sensing and cartography. Thematic maps and databases created in the above mentioned geographical ... (read more) Integrated Course on Environmental Monitoring using GIS and Remote Sensing Autor: J.R. Oledzki, B. Zagajewski and M. Sobczak In this paper we present an Integrated Course of Environment Monitoring using methods of GIS, remote sensing and biometry. The course is organised by Remote Sensing of Environment Laboratory, Warsaw University, for students of Interfaculty Study Programme in Environmental Protection (ISPEP) as well ... (read more) Integrationg of GI Education by web atlas engineering Autor: Vít Voženílek In recent years, the development of electronic atlas performs within geoinformatics and is very fast. It has gained some achievements in practice and markets – study and improvement in technological process of electronic atlas production, establishment of production management, project of large web ... (read more) Issues of GIS education and popularization in poland Autor: Jozef Wozniak The Polish universities have interesting experience in education and popularization of Geographical Information Systems with reference to the strategy of the systems creation, as well as the system implementation attendant possible failures and dangers. The Geodesy and Geoinformation Division at the ... (read more) Supporting GIS courses using e-learning practices. A case study from Greece Autor: Christos Chalkias & Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos This paper demonstrates a concept on supporting GIS courses using e-learning practices. The e-learning educational context for the undergraduate level GIS courses in the Dept of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens is presented with emphasis on the general design and organization of the web page ... (read more) Teaching OGC Web Services Autor: L. Gietler, R. Helmich and W. Reinhardt The paper deals with the development of teaching profiles using the results of the project Geoinformation – Multimedia for a New Interdisciplinary Course of Studies. This is demonstrated by the example of a teaching profile for GI-specialists treating OGC web services. ... (read more) The Image Web Serwer (IWS) as an Internet Tool of Geoinformatic Education Autor: P. Wezyk, A. Swiader and K. Koziol The Image Web Server (IWS)has been designed by Earth Resource Mapping as a means of serving and distributing large GB or TB-sized images over networks that can have relatively low bandwidths. These technologies can be extremely successful in the education of geoinformatics. In the Project of the Forest ... (read more)