GIScience Teaching and Learning Perspectives

Description

This volume uniquely links educational theories and the practice of GIScience in higher education contexts to guide classroom practice, present effective practical implementations from peers, and provide resources and strategies for effective teaching methods. The book offers a comprehensive exploration of GIScience education, including current trends and future educational needs in GIScience, and will act as a resource to prepare learners for a world that demands more intensive investment in present-day education and technological literacy. Additionally, the indirect benefit of merging the fragmented literature on GIScience literacy will provide a basis to examine common techniques and enable a new wave of research more rooted in learning theories. In ten chapters, the book is designed to attract an audience from geographic information systems science, geomatics, spatial information science, cartography, information technology, and educational technology as focus disciplines. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Teaching and Learning Pedagogies in Higher Education Geographic Information Science (Shivanand Balram)....Pages 1-8 The Evolution and Definition of Geospatial Literacy (Lynn Moorman)....Pages 9-36 Enabling Scientific Research Skills in Undergraduate Students During a Spatial Modeling Course (Suzana Dragićević, Taylor Anderson)....Pages 37-52 The AMETHYST Program: The NSERC CREATE Experience (Craig Coburn)....Pages 53-62 “The Map Is Not the Territory”: Adding Value to Technical GIS Education (Mryka Hall-Beyer)....Pages 63-79 Using an Online Format to Teach Graduate-Level Remote Sensing Basics (Mryka Hall-Beyer)....Pages 81-101 Web GIS in Development: From Research and Teaching Perspectives (Ruibo Han)....Pages 103-122 Neogeography: Rethinking Participatory Mapping and Place-Based Learning in the Age of the Geoweb (Jon Corbett, Gabrielle Legault)....Pages 123-143 Navigating Employment Prospects for New Graduates in the Geospatial Sciences (Niem Tu Huynh, G. Brent Hall)....Pages 145-169 Epilogue: A Future of Convergence and Crises (James Boxall)....Pages 171-191 Back Matter ....Pages 193-200