Informal/Non-Formal Ways of Learning GIS In Interdisciplinary Research
Patrick Rickles
This is me
I’m a geo-geek
This is Jerome
He’s an Anthropologist
We deal with different things
We learn in different ways
But we work together using locational analyses
I learn some Anthropology
He learns some GIS
Interdisciplinary Research isn’t easy…
Learning GIS isn’t easy…
We Find the Challenges
-Knowledge Gap
We Try the Solutions
-Team-building
-Training
We Identify What to Learn
GIS&T BoK
-Geospatial Data
-Cartography & Visualisation
So, learn together how to make maps and data
But he’s in the Congo now… And I’m here…
We have the Internet!
Use the Internet to Create a
Virtual Situated LearningEnvironment
Introducing
“GIS Lessons For You”
www.patrickrickles.com/tutorial
Contextually relevant things interdisciplinary researchers want to learn to do using ArcGIS Online
-(More) User Friendly
-Cloud-Based
-Wealth of Resources
Why
?
Check out “GIS Lessons for You”
and learn together
wherever you are