Abstract
Inciting a Geospatial Revolution in Online Education
Track: User Presentations - Teaching
Authors: Anthony Robinson
The Geospatial Revolution has brought about a wide range of new challenges and opportunities for educators of all kinds. Geospatial distance education is one sub-domain that has seen a dramatic rise in the number and diversity of options for learners. However, current distance education offerings for geospatial learning have yet to reach key goals of becoming mainstream, sustainable, and widely accessible to all learners. This presentation proposes and contextualizes five key challenges that geospatial distance educators should address to incite its own revolution to accomplish those goals. These challenges include; meeting the needs of an increasingly diverse student body, developing curricula to balance needs and competencies established by multiple frameworks (GTCM, Body of Knowledge, etc.), offering a wider range of credential options, establishing best practices for integrating online programs with resident instruction programs, and taking advantage of new technology platforms to better support spatial learning and distributed learner communities.