The ICA Commission on Education and Training is organizing an online workshop “Challenges and Opportunities of Cartography and GIS Education: in the Classroom and in the Cloud”
When: Thursday, October 28, 2021, Time: 12.30 – 16.30 GMT
Workshop Programme (download as programme.pdf)
| Session 1, Sustainable Geospatial Education and Resources | ||
| Chair: Tao Wang, 12:30-13:20 GMT | ||
| S1-1: | Geospatial Enabled Sustainable Development Goals and Education | |
| Yu Feng Luo, UNESCO Beijing Office | ||
| S1-2: | Mapping for a Sustainable World – Open Education (abstract) | |
| Menno-Jan Kraak, University of Twente, Robert E. Roth, Britta Ricker, Ayako Kagawa, Guillaume LeSourd | ||
| S1-3: | China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Education | |
| Zi Ting Gao, CNKI | ||
| Session 2, Theoretical Foundations for Teaching and Learning of Cartography | ||
| Chair: David Fairbairn, 13:20-14:05 GMT | ||
| S2-1: | Living Structure as a New Concept for Cartography (abstract, video) | |
| Bin Jiang, University of Gävle | ||
| S2-2: | Catch Them Young: Engaging Children with Maps and Mapping (abstract, slides) | |
| Peter Vujakovic, Canterbury Christ Church University, Paula Owens, Stephen Scoffham | ||
| S2-3: | Development of the International Schools of Cartographic Thought from an Educational Perspective (abstract) | |
| Olesia Ignateva, University of Twente, Menno-Jan Kraak | ||
| Session 3, Course Design and Practices in Cartography and GIS Education | ||
| Chair: Georg Gartner, 14:05-15:15 GMT | ||
| S3-1: | Basic Problem of Teaching about Map Projections (abstract, slides) | |
| Miljenko Lapaine, University of Zagreb | ||
| S3-2: | Cartography: an Online Open Course (abstract, slides) | |
| Yi Long, Xiao Yan Liu, Nanjing Normal University, | ||
| S3-3: | Application of Blended Learning in Course of C++ Programming (abstract, slides) | |
| Vladimir Zablotskii, Bauman Moscow State Technical University/Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography | ||
| S3-4: | Teaching Cartography and GIS During Covid-19 Pandemic in Polish Universities (abstract) | |
| Małgorzata Wieczorek, University of Wroclaw | ||
| S3-5: | Teaching GIS in English in a Chinese University (abstract, slides) | |
| Tao Wang, Capital Normal University | ||
| Session 4, Resilient Curriculum for Cartography and GIS Education | ||
| Chair: László Zentai, 15:15-16:00 GMT | ||
| S4-1: | Experiences of a Pandemic Affected International M.Sc. Semester (abstract) | |
| Georg Gartner, Vienna University of Technology, Wangshu Wang | ||
| S4-2: | Reinventing Roles: the New paradigms in Geoinformation Teaching and Research in Social Isolation and the Experiences of the Postgraduate Programme in Geodetic Sciences at UFPR-Brazil (abstract) | |
| Silvana Philippi Camboim, Federal University of Parana, Andréa F. Andrade, M. A. Reolon Schmidt | ||
| S4-3: | GIS Education in Nepal in a Challenging Era (abstract) | |
| Umesh Bhurtyal, Kathmandu University | ||
| Session 5, Career Images Cartographers Draw | ||
| Chair: Terje Midtbø, 16:00-16:45 GMT | ||
| S5-1: | IT’S OK TO BE A CARTOGRAPHER! (abstract) | |
| Georg Gartner, Vienna University of Technology | ||
| As a full professor for Cartography at Technische Universität Wien, Austria, Georg is a former president of the ICA, Dean of Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation, and Vice-President of the Austrian Society for Surveying and Geoinformation (OVG). He is co-founder of the International Master programme on Cartography. He has worked specifically on questions related to the transformation of cartographic knowledge and applications into modern settings, such as Location-based Services and Web Mapping. | ||
| S5-2: | VERSATILE, OPEN-MINDED AND SUPPORTIVE! (slides) | |
| László Zentai, Eötvös Loránd University | ||
| As a full professor of Cartography and Geoinformation, László is a Vice-President of the ICA, Director of the Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Vice-Rector of ELTE Eötvös Loránd University and was Vice-Dean for Scientific and International Affairs. He is a Council member of the International Orienteering Federation. He has worked on computer cartography, digital atlases, relief representation, topographic and orienteering maps, education and training in cartography. | ||
| S5-3: | Panel Discussion on Academic Career | |
| All Participants, from the World | ||
Selected contributions will be published in a special issue with the Journal of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science.