Integrating ArcGIS Online and digital story mapping for active learning in systematic geography courses

IF 1.8 4区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Journal of Geography in Higher Education Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI:10.1080/03098265.2023.2267461

Paul N. McDaniel, Ulrike Ingram

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ABSTRACTAmid the shift to virtual teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, educators across disciplines were faced with developing new teaching strategies for active learning and significant learning experiences. This paper discusses findings from a case study of integrating ArcGIS Online and StoryMaps for assignments and semester projects in systematic geography courses – health, population, and urban geography. The study assesses the process of incorporating the use of this technology into these upper-division undergraduate courses, with a mix of both geography and non-geography majors, and student perspectives on their learning of and engagement with this technology. With broader applications to different course, discipline, and education contexts, findings suggest increased student engagement, enhanced understanding of course topics and their practical applications, and an appreciation for the opportunity to learn within and work with geospatial technology.KEYWORDS: ArcGIS Onlinegeovisual narrativesStoryMapsactive learningsystematic geography AcknowledgementThank you to the anonymous reviewers and editors for their suggestions throughout the review process, which helped to greatly strengthen this paper. Thank you also to our students and their enthusiastic engagement in our courses.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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在系统地理课程中整合ArcGIS在线与数字故事地图的主动学习

摘要在新冠肺炎疫情期间，随着虚拟教学的发展，跨学科教育工作者面临着开发新的教学策略以实现主动学习和重要学习体验的挑战。本文讨论了在系统地理课程——健康、人口和城市地理——的作业和学期专题中整合ArcGIS Online和StoryMaps的案例研究结果。该研究评估了将该技术的使用纳入这些高年级本科课程的过程，包括地理和非地理专业的学生，以及学生对该技术的学习和使用的看法。通过在不同的课程、学科和教育背景下更广泛的应用，研究结果表明，学生的参与度提高了，对课程主题及其实际应用的理解增强了，对地理空间技术学习和使用的机会的欣赏程度提高了。感谢匿名审稿人和编辑在审稿过程中提出的建议，对本文的完善起到了很大的作用。也感谢我们的学生和他们对我们课程的热情参与。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Geography in Higher Education ( JGHE) was founded upon the conviction that the development of learning and teaching was vitally important to higher education. It is committed to promote, enhance and share geography learning and teaching in all institutions of higher education throughout the world, and provides a forum for geographers and others, regardless of their specialisms, to discuss common educational interests, to present the results of educational research, and to advocate new ideas.