Adrijana Car

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UNIGIS_at_SalzburgSuccessful Career Development for
Professionals Through Online Distance Learning

• Adrijana Car
• Centre for Geoinformatics, Salzburg
  UniversityAustrian Academy of Sciences -
  GIScience

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Contents

• UNIGIS   
• UNIGIS International Association partner
• Z_GIS_at_Salzburg Universtity
• Industry links
• UNIGIS_at_Salzburg
• UNIGIS professional diploma
• MSc(GIS)
• Working environment

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• a worldwide network of educational institutions
• offers internationally recognized, academic,
  distance learning qualifications in GIScience
  and Systems
• professional certificates / diplomas
• postgraduate Masters degrees

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Targeted Audience

• Professionals
• mostly working in GIS industry,
• interested in continuing education or
• pursuing an academic degree, and
• whose work and responsibilities require that
  their education be as free as possible from
  limitations of place and time

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UNIGIS Global Network

• First courses in 1993
• Founding members
• UK
• Amsterdam
• Salzburg
• Global network on (nearly) all continents
• Move into professional education
• Dedicated to lifelong learning!

• Cooperation in development of curricula, media,
  and general innovation
• Exchange in GIScience and eLearning
• Mutual recognition of degrees and credits (ECTS)
• Contributions to international curricula and
  standards development
• The only sustained international (online)
  distance education!

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UNIGIS_at_Salzburg

• 1000 students and alumni
• In certificate and master courses
• From German speaking areas
• International programs
• offered since 05/2006 from Salzburg
• by our partners using our materials since 2004
• gt Foundation for an important professional
  network and Leading GIScience education program

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Centre for GeoInformaticsParis-Lodron Salzburg
University
Research Development
EduProjects
MSc(GISc.)
UNIGIS
PostgraduateEducation
BasicResearch
RDProjects
AGITGI_Forum
Seminars
LearningMedia
Transferto Industry
AplusB
GI-Cluster
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Industry partners

• Relationships with leading companies
• ESRI Software, Virtual Campus
• Intergraph Software, Internship
• Leica ERDAS Software
• Autodesk
• Oracle, Clark Labs Idrisi, Definiens, Safe,
• Publishers
• Magazines Geoinformatics, Geoconnexion, GIS
  Development
• Wiley Ltd Longley et al. GIS book

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Membership
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Recent / current projects Education/ eLearning

• Herodot
• eNews
• UniPHORM PHARE
• GeoBASE
• EMGISc, EMGISc-D
• SDiLA, LIME
• InterGIS, GISELA
• Tempus CARDS

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Deadline abstracts for poster/presentation by
April 27, 07
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UNIGIS_at_Salzburg Principles

• Continuing education via online distance learning
• Where When at student convenience
• In-service learning
• Alternative to full-time study
• Some presence required
• Application oriented
• professional software
• Cooperation with industry
• Academic qualification awarded by Salzburg
  University

• Active Learning
• Continuous interaction and feedback
• Multimedia presentation and tools
• Problem- / Solution-oriented
• Learning to learn

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Curriculum

• Conform to academic course
• Modular structure
• 15 lessons
• 4-7 assignments
• 6 ECTS credits120 hours of student effort
• In part-time distance-learning mode 8 weeks
  when taken in sequence

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Modular structure MSc

• Focus on conceptual, technical, and
  organisational aspects of GIScience and their
  application in various fields
• Qualification as a project, team or department
  leader
• 2 year postgraduate course
• Structure
• 9 Modules
• Electives
• Collaborative project
• Master thesis
• Awarded academic degree MSc(GIS)

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Modular structure UNIGIS professional

• designed to develop or improve application-oriente
  d skills provide an understanding of GIS
• 1 year
• Structure
• 7 Modules
• 1Elective or collaborative project
• Professional diploma certificate

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UNIGIS Environment

• Blackboard
• eLearning platform
• Learning Management System
• Communication
• Via Email, Blackboard (discussion boards,
  virtual classroom, wiki)Skype / GoogleTalk
• Tutor, Instructor, Team

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Future with Geoinformation
The only sustainable competitive advantage is
the ability to learn and apply the right stuff
faster Wayne Hodgkins
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Lesson Structure
Intro TOC

• Type of current element and position within
  lesson needs to be obvious
• Of course, there can be more optional elements
  than just Hungry minds
• Feedback quiz, exercise, assignment

Learning Objectives
Motivation lead-in
Concept discussion
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Lesson
Example / Activity
Hungry minds
Feedback
Summary / Review
References
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Core Modules
GIScienceIntroduction
Organisationand Project Mgmt
Data Modellingand Structures
VisualisationCartography
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Data Sources and Acquisition
GeographicalAnalysis
SpatialStatistics
OpenGIS
geoDBMS
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Elective subjects Optional Modules
EuroGIS
Remote Sensing
Application Development
Photogrammetry
Thesis Electives
MasterThesis
Oracle Spatial
ExternalCourses
ESRI Virtual Campus
SummerSchools