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Possibilities with EduMapping

Possibilities with EduMapping. Frans I. Rip, Sept. 2010. Overview of this presentation. Problem statement / why EduMapping? EduMapping = Referencing Course Content GI BoK? (22%) Possibilities & deployment (review, compare) Obstacles Future Summary. 2. Problem 1: description diversity.

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Possibilities with EduMapping

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  1. Possibilities withEduMapping Frans I. Rip, Sept. 2010

  2. Overview of this presentation • Problem statement / why EduMapping? • EduMapping = Referencing Course Content • GI BoK? (22%) • Possibilities & deployment (review, compare) • Obstacles • Future • Summary 2

  3. Problem 1: description diversity GI education and training comes in many shapes and sizes. The ways to describe their contents are diverse too. • Some parameters of content and description: • From 1 day course to 270 ects curriculum (= 4.5 years) • Focus on GI or embedded in application field • Language of teaching and description • Organization-prescribed format 3

  4. Problem 2: subjectivity by role When reading a course description, • Involved teaching staff may • see other content than uninvolved staff (example RvL-FR_GIMA) • have multiple individual views on the content of a course (example?) • Students before participation may see different content in the course description than intended by teaching staff(no example) • Students after participation • may have changed their view from before participation (no example) • may have a different view on course content than involved staff or uninvolved staff (example MdJ/Alex-RvL_GIMA) • GI-skilled outsiders may see different content in the course description than intended by teaching staff (example Painho/Orshoven-HB_GRS20306) 4

  5. projection metaphor: imagine movie projection: - out of focus - without screen http://www.beachhutmedia.com.au/news_2006.html Summarized: variety in sources and reception: a communication obstacle Describing GI courses with ‘free’ text is like the projection of an image through a bad lens and without a screen EduMapping can help by providing a screen 5

  6. EduMapping EduMapping relates course content to an external reference and creates a LABEL ASSESSMENT 6

  7. GI BoK as a reference • BoK: UCGIS 2006 • Hierarchy of KA’s, Units and Topics • Masik 2010: 22% users of BoK in Europe (N=100 (113?)) • USA (origin): no known survey 7

  8. A label for GI-content This label, added to course descriptions, should make GI education more transparent 8

  9. Possibilities & deployment • Review your course or curriculum • the BoK taxonomy as a checklist for teaching subjects • Quantified assessment: how is available time spent?makes attention distribution visible, comparable and debatable between all involved staff (requires only local application of EduMapping) • Compare courses or curricula • easier comparison by students between educational offerings by different organizations (assuming they understand & come for content) • find out what the other organizations specialize in • finding a niche for your curriculum in your region: we cover subjects A, B and C, but we are THE specialists for subjects D & E → helps curriculum marketing (possible when EduMapping is widely applied) 9

  10. Review options • check intended content against GI BoK items (KA, Units, topics) • check quantitative profile against overall concept as formulated in the description (assessment by course / curriculum manager) • use assessments of the description by involved staff to identify points for discussion (bring hidden differences of opinion to the surface) • use assessments by post-participants and by GI-skilled but uninvolved outsiders to identify sources for different interpretations of the description. 10

  11. Comparison options • compare total course/curriculum time spending to 4 subject categories: In-BoK, GI-but-not-in-BoK, Generic GI, not-GI • compare the profile of the In-BoK category of C/C: how much time for each Knowledge Area? 11

  12. Obstacles for EduMapping • EduMapping: mapping between 2 fuzzy sets • content descriptions are free format regarding GI-content • BoK-book : taxonomy on paper, no clear criteria, little RS, little geodesy, almost 5 years old 12

  13. Future 13

  14. Thank you • Frans I. Rip, Lab. of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing • Wageningen University and Research centre, the Netherlands • frans.rip @ wur.nl – http://www.grs.wur.nl/UK/ Reference: Rip, F. I. and R. J. A. van Lammeren (2010). Mapping Geo-Information Education In Europe. ISPRS 2010, Mid-Term Symposium Commission VI - Cross-Border Education for Global Geo-Information, Enschede, the Netherlands, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 14

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