Evaluating G-portal for geography learning and teaching

Author

Chew-Hung Chang ; Hedberg, John G. ; Yin-Leng Theng

fYear

2005

fDate

7-11 June 2005

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

22

Abstract

This paper describes G-Portal, a geospatial digital library of geographical assets, providing an interactive platform to engage students in active manipulation and analysis of information resources and collaborative learning activities. Using a G-Portal application in which students conducted a field study of an environmental problem of beach erosion and sea level rise, we describe a pilot study to evaluate usefulness and usability issues to support the learning of geographical concepts, and in turn teaching

Keywords

computer aided instruction; digital libraries; erosion; geographic information systems; oceanography; portals; teaching; G-Portal; beach erosion; collaborative learning activities; environmental problem; geography learning; geography teaching; geospatial digital library; information resources; interactive platform; sea level rise; students; Australia; Collaborative work; Computer science education; Educational technology; Geography; Information analysis; Information resources; Permission; Sea measurements; Software libraries; geography; geospatial digital libraries; teaching and learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Libraries, 2005. JCDL '05. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

1-58113-876-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1145/1065385.1065390

Filename

4118509