Introduction to Geoinformatics

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Introduction to Geoinformatics

• UAF ESSE 21 Year 2 participant
• Anupma Prakash

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About our course

• 3 credit, 300 level course
• Contents
• Data management
• remote sensing
• GPS,
• GIS
• Cartography
• Course offered in Spring 2004, 2005

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Year 1 vs. Year 2
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Year 1 vs. Year 2

• Year 1 Lectures somehow got prepared but the lab
  preparation was weak
• Year 2 Attention geared to labs

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Year 1 vs. Year 2

• Compared to year 1, year 2 had
• lower enrollment (general year to year
  fluctuation)
• higher diversity (engineering, fisheries)
• better lab facilities
• practically glitch free
• more complex student projects
• higher IAS evaluation (3.4 to 4.8)

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Assessment and evaluation

• Assessment is defined as data-gathering
  strategies, analyses, and reporting processes
  that provide information that can be used to
  determine whether or not intended outcomes are
  being achieved.
• Evaluation uses assessment information to support
  decisions on maintaining, changing, or discarding
  instructional or programmatic practices.

Gagne, R.M., L.J. Bridges, and W.W. Wagne. 1998.
Principles of Instructional Design. Hanson,
G., and B. Price. 1992. Academic Program Review.
In The Primer for Institutional Research.
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Prized resources
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Course web site

• http//www.gi.alaska.edu/prakash/teaching/geos378
  /index.html

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Barrow and Fairbanks HS
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Interdisciplinary
geology, geophysics, volcanology, seismology
earth science, engineering, marine science
natural science, liberal arts, math, medicine