BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8fddf66e59da3a0a7e188b1b012dd07a38 CATEGORIES:Webinars SUMMARY:Blended Learning in a GIScience Course: Lynda and Sketch-based Geo-spatial Learning Objects DESCRIPTION:
Blended learning and flipped classroom experiences are concepts th
at are being promoted to enhance student learning and student learning expe
riences. Especially for technology and method oriented courses the advantag
es are manifold: core concepts and techniques can be (pre-) digested by stu
dents at their own pace, at their own favorite time, and, if necessary, rep
eatedly. Valuable face-to-face time is freed-up for teachers in the classro
om to engage students in discussions, pick-up and focus on conceptually dif
ficult topics, and enhancing learning through repetition. The credo of flip
ped classroom experiences is “From the sage on the State to the Guide
on the Side”. However, the cost of flipping classrooms can be high,
especially if materials are intended to adhere to professional standards. E
fforts and resources that leverage cost and time are therefore essential. C
ommercial products such as lectures offered through Lynda.com are an option
for adding flipped classroom experience to existing courses with minimal a
dditional resources in those cases where the topics match. In this presenta
tion we will give an overview of how courses from Lynda.com are used to enh
ance the classroom experience in a spatial analysis course (Geog 464).
Additionally, to complement the students blended learning exp
erience, we use the outcome of a COIL RIG funded project to convey concepts
of spatial analysis to students in a non-traditonal way. To deliver dynami
c content tailored to students’ needs and interest we have evaluated
low-cost / free sketching tools. Sketching plays a central role in many spa
tial sciences (e.g., architecture) and spatial analysis is no exception. Ba
sed on the Body of Knowledge for Geographic Information Science and Systems
, we have created sketch-based learning objects to complement students&rsqu
o; blended learning experience and also create a systematic collection of t
opics that other researchers can contribute to.
Presenter: Dr. Alexander Klippel is Associate Professor of Geography (GIScience) and dire cts the Human Factors in GIScience Lab at Penn State. He also holds an affi liate position at the Information Sciences & Technology Department. He has studied and worked in Germany, Australia, and the USA in Geography, Inf ormatics, and Geomatics. His research interests center on multidisciplinary topics at the interface between spatial cognition and GIScience, especiall y the area of geographic event conceptualization and the integration of cog nitive factors into formal characterizations of dynamic spatial processes. A second line of his research at Penn State is the interaction of people, e nvironments, and mobile/static devices, i.e. location based services (LBS).
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