Helen Durham, Louise Mackay, Dr Richard Hardy
University of Southampton
University of California Santa Barbara
Pennsylvania State University
1st February 2003 – 31 January 2006
JISC/NSF
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The project partners are developing electronic resources to support teaching and independent student learning at undergraduate levels within their existing programmes. The set of courses/modules will cover the particular topics linked to digital geospatial resources, within Human Geography, Geomorphology, Geographical Information Science and Earth Observation.
The two primary aims of the project are to develop:
(i) a distributed enabling information infrastructure for the support of learning and teaching in Geography, and
(ii) innovative approaches to learning and teaching, based on this infrastructure.
Specifically, the project seeks:
To show how the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of study in Geography in the consortium universities can be enriched and developed through cross-national collaboration and on-line delivery;
To show how major geospatial resources relevant for the study of the environment and landscape and for the study of human populations in cities and the countryside can be used in student programmes of study;
To show how important skills in the analysis of spatial information through use of Geographical Information Science and Earth Observation software and functions can be taught on-line and made available in undergraduate programmes;
To develop on-line learning and teaching resources for use on campus so that relevant Geographical courses can be delivered to students in other disciplines, overcoming timetabling problems.