Abstract

Five Easy Pieces: Tips for Teaching Challenging GIS Topics
Track: User Presentations - Learning and Research
Authors: Richard Kos, J. Mike Pogodzinski

As much as we educators enjoy imparting our GIS knowledge to our students with great confidence, chances are that each of us has wrestled from time to time with effective ways to present complex topics in a manner that is both memorable and practical. The presenters will share their approaches to teaching five such topics, including: (1) map projections, (2) spatial statistics, (3) spatial regression and econometrics, (4) Spatial Analyst functionality, and (5) geoprocessing with ModelBuilder.

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