Informal / Non-Formal Ways of Learning GIS in interdisciplinary Research

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