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Ako Victoria 18 th April 2011

A Tale of Two Cities: The case for blended learning for GIS at Masters level for Victoria and Canterbury Mairead de Roiste, Victoria University of Wellington Femke Reitsma , University of Canterbury. Ako Victoria 18 th April 2011. Outline. The Why? The What? The How? And the unexpected….

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Ako Victoria 18 th April 2011

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  1. A Tale of Two Cities: The case for blended learning for GIS at Masters level for Victoria and Canterbury Mairead de Roiste, Victoria University of Wellington Femke Reitsma, University of Canterbury Ako Victoria 18th April 2011

  2. Outline • The Why? • The What? • The How? • And the unexpected…

  3. GIS at VUW GEOG 215: Introduction to Geographic Information Science and Systems (GIS) GIS Lecturer GEOG 315: Advanced Geographic Information Science and Systems (GIS) PHYG 415: Introduction to Geographic Information Science and Systems (GIS) for Postgraduates Contributions to: Research Methods courses in Earth Sciences and Geography First year course in Physical Geography GIS Technician

  4. Personal Motivation for Collaboration • Students with more advanced GIS knowledge at Masters and Honours level • Tailored courses for postgraduate students • Attracting quality students with similar research interests • Reaching out! • Sharing resources and research collaboration

  5. Industry Interest

  6. Development of the MGIS • 2006. Idea for a joint Masters in GIS first raised • 2009. UC gets funding to advance a Masters in GIS from the NZ Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) • 2009/2010. Consortium of universities work on the pilot- 2x workshops (course development and pedagogy) • 2010. Decisions made for new course application for 2011. Canterbury and Victoria ready to start, Otago and Auckland needed more time. • 2010. InterdisciplinaryMasters in GIS (and PGDipGIS) developed that will run at UC in collaboration with Victoria in 2011.

  7. Initial Barriers • Institutional approval • VUW Pilot 2011 • Canterbury full steam ahead 2011 • Multiple locations • Remote technologies • A cohesive cohort? • The student experience • Staff interactions • Remote technologies

  8. Outline • The Why? • The What? • The How? • And the unexpected…

  9. Programme

  10. MGIS team Femke Reitsma Greg Breetzke Simon Kingham Peter Day Wolfgang Rack Carl Cerecke Mairead de Roiste Kelvin Barnsdale Marcus Andreotti Amber Pearson The technical team!

  11. Outline • The Why? • The What? • The How? • And the unexpected…

  12. Pedagogy • Blended Learning • Intensive residential + ongoing virtual • Short burst in person + ongoing virtual • Weekly synchronous in-person/virtual

  13. Field course: Round 2 MGIS students and staff from Canterbury, Victoria and Otago at the second chance field course in Living Springs (20 minutes outside of Christchurch)

  14. Field course: Group Work

  15. Field course: Field Techniques

  16. Course Example

  17. Teaching Technology KARENKiwi Advanced Research and Education Network Scopia Desktop Access Grid

  18. Outline • The Why? • The What? • The How? • And the unexpected…

  19. Dealing with the Unexpected

  20. Benefits • Students • Greater variety • Alignment with research interests and future career paths • Teaching staff • Specialised teaching • Alignment of student projects with research interests • Research collaboration potential • Wider Schools • Taking non-VUW courses • Reducing over reliance on staff • Institutions • Attracting quality students, esp. internationally • Industry scholarships • Response to industry demand

  21. MGIS 2012-onwards Thank You! Any Questions? Further information: www.mgis.ac.nz

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