Abstract
Adding Something 'Spatial' to Course Redesigns Across Campus
Track: User Presentations - Teaching
Authors: Emma Giles, Melinda Laituri, Sophia Linn
For the past few months, the Geospatial Centroid at Colorado State University has worked with instructional designers and professors from across campus to add elements of spatial thinking and geospatial technologies to courses participating in a course redesign process sponsored by The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT). While not always obvious at first, many classes can be enhanced by considering a spatial perspective. This means that location matters: in archeology or business, engineering or horticulture, water management or disease diffusion. Through cooperating with professors as well as instructional designers, Centroid staff has sought to develop teaching resources that support the objectives of the course while at the same time exposing students (and instructors) to new ways of looking at issues, data, and problems-the power of spatial thinking. A summary of projects will be shared, along with lessons learned.