Development and operation of GIS exercise materials for undergraduate students
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- Subject Areas
- Computer Education
- Keywords
- GIS education, exercises, Open Educational Resources, QGIS, GitHub
- Copyright
- © 2018 Yamauchi et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Development and operation of GIS exercise materials for undergraduate students. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27219v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27219v1
Abstract
Since around 2000, GIS researchers in Japan have collaborated to provide materials for GIS lecture classes for university undergraduates. As a result, a GIS core curriculum, a Japanese version of GIS Body of Knowledge (BoK), and a series of PowerPoint presentation files were developed. These materials are online and available to anybody with free of charge. However, they have not yet published free-access online materials for GIS exercises using software and spatial data. Therefore, we launched a new project in 2015 to produce such materials. The learning topics in the materials were selected based on products from the previous projects. Software packages used for GIS operations are free open-source ones. The materials have been provided as open educational resources with a Creative Commons license on the GitHub platform. The materials were used in a university class of GIS exercises to verify whether they are effective for undergraduate students. In this paper, we introduce the developed materials and show the results of their applications.
Author Comment
"This submission is intended for the OGRS'2018 Collection"
Supplemental Information
Interface of developed materials （https://gis-oer.github.io/gitbook/book/）
Syllabus of an exercise course
Data type R shows raster data and V shows vector data.