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A Tale of Two Cities: The case for blended learning for GIS at Masters
level for Victoria and CanterburyMairead de Roiste, Victoria University of Wellington
Femke Reitsma, University of Canterbury
Ako Victoria 18th April 2011
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Outline
• The Why?• The What?• The How?• And the unexpected…
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GIS at VUW
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GIS Lecturer
GIS Technician
GEOG 215: Introduction to Geographic Information Science and Systems (GIS)
GEOG 315: Advanced GeographicInformation 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 GeographyFirst year course in Physical Geography
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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
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Industry Interest
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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. Interdisciplinary Masters in GIS (and PGDipGIS) developed that will run at UC in collaboration with Victoria in 2011.
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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
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Outline
• The Why?• The What?• The How?• And the unexpected…
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Programme
Year 1
Semester 1 Semester 2
Core Core
GISC 401: Foundations of GI ScienceGISC 404: Geospatial Analysis
GISC 402: GI Science ResearchGISC 403: Cartography & Visualisation
Electives (choose 2) Electives (choose 2)
GISC 405: GIS Programming and DatabasesGISC 406: Remote Sensing for Earth ObservationGISC 411: GIS in Health1 local approved elective
GISC 410: GIS 2.0GISC 412: Spatial Algorithms & ProgrammingGISC 413: Special Topic: Geomatic Data Acquisition1 local approved elective
Year 2
GISC 690: Research Thesis
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MGIS team
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Femke Reitsma
Greg Breetzke
Simon Kingham
Peter Day Wolfgang Rack
Mairead de Roiste
Kelvin Barnsdale
The technical team!
Marcus Andreotti
Amber Pearson
Carl Cerecke
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Outline
• The Why?• The What?• The How?• And the unexpected…
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Pedagogy
• Blended Learning
• Intensive residential + ongoing virtual• Short burst in person + ongoing virtual• Weekly synchronous in-person/virtual
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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)
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Field course: Group Work
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Field course: Field Techniques
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Course Example
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Teaching Technology
KARENKiwi Advanced Research and Education Network
Scopia Desktop Access Grid
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Outline
• The Why?• The What?• The How?• And the unexpected…
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Dealing with the Unexpected
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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
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MGIS 2012-onwardsThank You!Any Questions?
Further information: www.mgis.ac.nz