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Using the geospatial web to deliver and teach GIScience education programs

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Veenendaal, Bert
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2015
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Veenendaal, B. 2015. Using the geospatial web to deliver and teach GIScience education programs, in The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS Workshop of Commission, Advance in Web-based Educaiton Services, Jun 18-19 2015, pp. 17-21. Berlin.
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International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
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Department of Spatial Sciences
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This open access article is distributed under the Creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Geographic information science (GIScience) education has undergone enormous changes over the past years. One major factor influencing this change is the role of the geospatial web in GIScience. In addition to the use of the web for enabling and enhancing GIScience education, it is also used as the infrastructure for communicating and collaborating among geospatial data and users. The web becomes both the means and the content for a geospatial education program. However, the web does not replace the traditional face-to-face environment, but rather is a means to enhance it, expand it and enable an authentic and real world learning environment. This paper outlines the use of the web in both the delivery and content of the GIScience program at Curtin University. The teaching of the geospatial web, web and cloud based mapping, and geospatial web services are key components of the program, and the use of the web and online learning are important to deliver this program. Some examples of authentic and real world learning environments are provided including joint learning activities with partner universities.