On Feb 21, 2013 Penn State announced that it will join several dozen universities in offering massive open online courses or MOOCs via the for profit Coursera company. Among the Penn State MOOCs to be offered later this year is what is believed to be the first geography or GIS MOOC: Maps and the Geospatial Revolution. Its author, Dr. Anthony Robinson discusses the role of MOOCs at Penn State and the development of the first Geo-MOOC.
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Building the World’s First Geo-MOOC: An Interview with Penn State’s Anthony Robinson
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Esri’s Jack Dangermond on Marrying Maps with Big Data Analytics - Data Informed - Directions Magazine
Directions Magazine, the first regularly published online news magazine covering gis and geospatial technology.
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“BIM Is Accelerting Very Rapidly” - An Interview with Mike DeLacey, Microdesk - Directions Magazine
Directions Magazine, the first regularly published online news magazine covering gis and geospatial technology.
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Is GIS Education Bait and Switch? - Directions Magazine
Last week a discussion of Spatial Information Technology (SpatialIT) came to a bit of a head. The conversation, led by OpenGeo’s Paul Ramsey, may have unearthed a truth many would rather not hear: “… as we know, GIS courses are just the bait in the trap, to suck naïve students into a career where 90% of the activity is actually in data creation (digitization monkey!) and publication (map monkey!), not in analysis.” Is that right?
http://www.directionsmag.com/podcasts/is-gis-education-bait-and-switch/289488
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Podcast: Skyhook Wireless’ Ted Morgan Comments on “Locationgate” - Directions Magazine
Directions Magazine, the first regularly published online magazine covering geospatial technology.
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Videos and podcasts - Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Jason Knouft, from Saint Louis University, Missouri, talks to Elizabeth Horne, MEE Journal Coordinator, about his recently published paper, “Using fine-scale GIS data to assess the relationship between intra-annual environmental niche variability and population density in a local stream fish assemblage".
Tagged with ecology mee gis environment
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All Points Blog: The State of Augmented Reality
A very good podcast about Augmented Reality, by two GIS-heads. Sounds like a cool show in general but this was a very intelligent discussion of AR in particular.
http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/6702-Podcast-The-State-of-Augmented-Reality.html
Tagged with ar augmented reality mobile gis