Open Geospatial Education

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Mariana Belgiu¹  Josef Strobl²  Gudrun Wallentin²  Barend Kobben²  Serena Coetzee² 

[1] Interfaculty Department of Geoinformatics-Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Schillerstrasse 30, Salzburg 5020, Austria;

关键词: open education;    MOOC;    geospatial;    GIS;    GIScience;    GIS&T;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijgi4020697

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The advances in open data, free and open source software solutions and open access to research publications have influenced the emergence of open educational resources (OER) initiatives. These initiatives permit access to openly licensed learning resources including courses, webinars, training materials and textbooks. Thereby, an increasing number of users has the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and gain new skills. The goal of this paper is to evaluate open education initiatives in the geospatial domain and its synergies with open spatial data and software movements. The paper is focusing on the Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) movement. The advantages and challenges of open geospatial education will be thoroughly discussed.

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