Teaching Geographic Information Science and Technology in Higher Education

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Teaching Geographic
Information Science
and Technology in
Higher Education
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Teaching Geographic
Information Science
and Technology in
Higher Education
Editors
David J. Unwin
BirkbeckCollegeLondon,UK
Kenneth E. Foote
UniversityofColorado,US
Nicholas J. Tate
UniversityofLeicester,UK
David DiBiase
PennsylvaniaStateUniversity,US
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Contents
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
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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
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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 Lu¨scher, 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, Nicholas J. Tate and David J. Unwin
Index 469
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About the editors
David J. Unwin
David,formerlyprofessorofgeographyatBirkbeckCollegeintheUniversityofLondonis
nowretired.HewasoneoftheteamthatestablishedtheJournalofGeographyinHigherEd-
ucationandin2006receivedrecognitionfromtheUSUniversityConsortiumforGeographic
InformationScienceasEducatoroftheYear.In1999hisworkinestablishingitscontinuing
professional development scheme led to the award of the UK Association for Geographic
Information’s Past President’s Prize. He has experience of teaching GIS&T in universities
intheUK,Canada,NewZealandandtheUSA.WithDavidO’Sullivanheisco-authorof
GeographicInformationAnalysis,alsopublishedbyWiley.
Kenneth E. Foote
KenisaprofessorofgeographyandformerdepartmentchairattheUniversityofColorado
atBoulder.Hisinterestsfocusonimprovinggeographyinhighereducation,learningtech-
nologies,andGIScience,particularlymultimediacartography.Hehasservedaspresident
ofboththeAssociationofAmericanGeographers(AAG)(2010–11)andNationalCouncilfor
GeographicEducation(NCGE)(2006).HeeditedtheNCGEPathwaysseriesforgeography
educators (2000–05) and was the North American editor of the Journal of Geography in
Higher Education (1999–2003). He received the AAG’s Honors in Geographic Education
in2005.
Nicholas J. Tate
NickisseniorlecturerattheDepartmentofGeography,UniversityofLeicester.HewasPI
andDirectoroftheSpatialLiteracyinTeaching(SPLINT)CETLfrom2005–10,wherehe
directedthepedagogicactivitiesacrosstheconsortium(UniversityofLeicester,University
ofNottinghamandUCL)towardsthedevelopmentofgeospatialtechnologiesandspatial
thinking for a predominantly graduate audience. He is currently GIS section editor for
GeographyCompassandhasbeenontheeditorialboardofthreeotherjournals.Hehasalso
servedonavarietyofcommitteesfortheAGI,RGS-IBGandRSPSoc.WithPeterAtkinson
he is editor of Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS and Modelling Scale in Geographical
InformationScience,bothpublishedbyWiley.
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x ABOUTTHEEDITORS
David DiBiase
David led the Penn State Online certificate and Master of GIS degree programs in GIS
from their inception in 1998 until 2011. The certificate program earned ESRI’s Special
AchievementinGISawardin2004,andthemastersprogramearnedtheSloanConsortium’s
2009 award for Most Outstanding Online Teaching and Learning Program. David led the
editorial teams that completed both the UCGIS GIS&T Body of Knowledge and the US
Department of Labor’s Geospatial Technology Competency Model. He participated in the
URISACertificationCommitteethathelpedestablishedtheGISCertificationInstitute,and
servedasGISCIPresidentfrom2010–11.InAugust2011,DavidmovestoEsriasDirector
ofEducation,IndustrySolutions.
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List of contributors
MatthewBampton WilliamCartwright
DepartmentofGeography-Anthropology SchoolofMathematicalandGeospatial
UniversityofSouthernMaine Sciences
37CollegeAvenue RMITUniversity
GorhamME04038USA GPOBox2476
Melbourne3001AUSTRALIA
RobertS.Bednarz
DepartmentofGeography PaulaCurvelo
TexasA&MUniversity InstituteforStatisticsandInformation
CollegeStationTX77843-3147USA Management
NewUniversityofLisbon
CampusdeCampolide
SarahW.Bednarz
1070-312LisbonPORTUGAL
DepartmentofGeography
TexasA&MUniversity
DavidDiBiase
CollegeStationTX77843-3147USA
JohnA.Duttone-EducationInstitute
418Earth-EngineeringSciencesBuilding
SusanneBleisch
PennStateUniversity
FHNWUniversityofAppliedSciences
UniversityParkPA16802USA
NorthwesternSwitzerland
InstituteofGeomaticsEngineering
KennethE.Foote
4132MuttenzSWITZERLAND
DepartmentofGeography
CampusBox260
DavidJ.Bodenhamer
UniversityofColoradoatBoulder
ThePolisCenter
BoulderCO80309USA
1200WaterwayBoulevard
Suite100 NickFrunzi
IndianapolisIN46202-2157USA Esri
380NewYorkStreet
AndyBurton Redlands,CA92373USA
ComputingandTechnologyTeam
NottinghamTrentUniversity MichaelF.Goodchild
Room302ComputingandInformatics CenterforSpatialStudiesandDepartment
Building ofGeography
CliftonCampusNottingham UniversityofCalifornia
NG118NSUK SantaBarbara,CA93106-4060USA
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xii LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS
ChristopherGoranson PatrickLu¨scher
GISCenter DepartmentofGeography
DepartmentofHealthandMentalHygiene UniversityofZurich
CityofNewYork Winterthurerstraβe190
125WorthStreetNewYorkNY10013USA 8057ZurichSWITZERLAND
IanN.Gregory SusannaA.McMaster
DepartmentofHistory DepartmentofGeography
LancasterUniversity UniversityofMinnesota
LancasterLA14YGUK 26719thAveS
MinneapolisMN55455USA
ThomasGrossmann
ETHZurich RobertB.McMaster
InstituteofTerrestrialEcosystems DepartmentofGeography
8092ZurichSWITZERLAND UniversityofMinnesota
26719thAveS
FrancisHarvey
MinneapolisMN55455USA
DepartmentofGeography
UniversityofMinnesota
NickJ.Mount
26719thAveS
SchoolofGeography
MinneapolisMN55455USA
UniversityofNottingham
UniversityPark
ClaireJarvis
NottinghamNG72RDUK
DepartmentofGeography
UniversityofLeicester
DavidM.Mountain
LeicesterLE17RHUK
SchoolofInformatics
CityUniversityLondon
InjeongJo
NorthamptonSquare
DepartmentofGeography
London,EC1V0HBUK
TexasA&MUniversity
CollegeStationTX77843-3147USA
MonikaNiederhuber
ETHZurich
AnnJohnson
InstituteofTerrestrialEcosystems
NationalGeospatialTechnologyCenter
8092ZurichSWITZERLAND
DelMarCollege
CorpusChristi,TX78404USA
MarcoPainho
InstituteforStatisticsandInformation
KarenK.Kemp
Management
SpatialSciencesInstitute
NewUniversityofLisbon
UniversityofSouthernCalifornia
CampusdeCampolide
3616TrousdaleParkway
1070-312LisbonPORTUGAL
LosAngelesCA,90089-0374USA
AndrewKlein MichaelPhoenix
DepartmentofGeography Esri
TexasA&MUniversity 380NewYorkStreet
CollegeStationTX77843-3147USA Redlands,CA92373USA