Sept 18-19 2005 David Martin, University of Southampton Slide 1

Online GIS collaboration

DialogPLUS Project Meeting

Penn State University

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Overview Course structure GIS for Analysis of Health Challenges First results Interim conclusions

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Course structure Well-established Penn State GIS Masters

programme through World Campus Leeds-Southampton online GIS Masters

programme through UKeU Demise of UKeU: Leeds-Southampton

collaborative programme with opportunity for Penn State content

More general potential for exchange of course modules – particularly at level 2 optional courses?

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Exchange of modules

(1) GIS programming and customization: Penn State module dealing with ArcGIS customization

(2) GIS for Analysis of Health: Southampton module dealing with GIS use for analysis of patterns of health and disease

(1) discussed first, but opportunity arose for earliest delivery of (2)

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Penn State

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Penn State

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GIS for Analysis of HealthAdvanced Proprietary GIS

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Penn State

GIS for Analysis of Health

Advanced Proprietary GIS

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GIS for analysis of health Application-based course: GIS for disease

mapping and spatial analysis Designed as part of health pathway (companion

course GIS for health care management) Authorship: Jim Wright, David Martin, Samantha

Cockings; learning technologist: Richard Treves New module for online delivery, drawing on face-

to-face health and GIS modules

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Course outline (unit titles)

Definitions of health Spatial aspects of health analysis Spatial data source considerations in GIS GIS for mapping health GIS for analysis of spatial clustering GIS for analysing spread of disease Measuring and modelling risk exposure Exploring inequalities in health

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Challenges

Learning design issues Which VLE to use? Alternative delivery models Different assessment regimes Student access to resources Registration and contractual

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Learning design GAH developed for Leeds-Southampton MSc; Good fit to prerequisites and course structure

but some adaptation required Reduce from 150 to 120 hours learning Learning objects structure inherited from UKeU

with high independence; ‘sacrificial objects’ sacrificed and recreated

Html objects; Flash presentations; activities – GIS, reflective, literature etc.

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Which VLE to use? Penn State world campus modules delivered

through Angel Southampton institutional VLE is Blackboard, but

modules constructed within Moodle Leeds-Southampton modules currently delivered

through Bodington Penn State students already registered and

familiar with Angel Which VLE to use?

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GAH example structureUnits (8) Learning objects (~65) Files (N)

Unit 2: Spatial Aspects of health analysis

www exercise

Flash slides

Html text

Images

GIS zip

Shapefiles

PDF

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Alternative delivery models

Solution (from Penn State): deliver through course index loaded within Angel but all content external to VLE

Tutor in Southampton (Jim Wright) using Angel, but Penn State students don’t see any difference

Tracking and communication within Angel Remote evaluation by Karen Fill (DialogPlus)

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Different assessment regimes Penn State submission model: online portfolios Differing student expectations of assessment

and marking UK courses: more discursive, less procedural Use marks equivalence table developed from

Leeds-Southampton-Penn State negotiation Use Penn State/DialogPlus evaluation tools

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Student access to resources

Adaptation of practical exercises from Idrisi to ArcGIS

Students have own GIS software Data for activities attached to objects Online references primarily open-source; all

subscription journal items identified and placed in online repository by Penn State for student access

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Registration and contractual Leeds-Southampton and Leeds-Southampton

Penn State agreements (NB still issues here!) Provide registration and financial models Students remain with Penn State Student pays own institution Tutor is the ‘guest’ 20/80 split of fee income Much easier to export to USA!

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First results 3 students Apr 05 quarter Offer again Oct 05 quarter Positive feedback from staff and students Issues: adaptation of learning and assessment

expectations GIS nugget library

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Interim conclusions Robustness of (ex-UKeU) learning object model

to repurposing Viability of remote tutoring and ex-VLE content:

but we need discussion sharing tools? Organizational barriers to e-learning collaboration

are bigger than technical ones WUN global GIS academy? Online collaborations involve real people working

together…

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And it doesn’t get this cold in Southampton…