Monday 7 December 2020

Teaching with GIS or about GIS? University educator's dilemma


Teaching who: for us, for companies?

About GIS, with GIS
Education or training
Tools or techniques/methods
Geography side approach towards Geoinformatics (the big picture for geographers)
European Context -> INSPIRE?

Terminology: GIS geoinformatics, GI Science … GI Society, GI Science and Technology
Spatial thinking
Geoinformatik in Germany -> spatial process with methods of informatics
What about Geomatics (origin surveying)
Cartography & geodesy as sub sections of …
NCGIA curriculum from the 1990s