• DocumentCode
    1879988
  • Title

    Assessment of Inquiry-Based Learning Geographic Course - A Case Study of "GIS Introduction"

  • Author

    Zhao, An ; Xie, Fangmei ; Zhu, Jing ; Tang, Qiqiang ; Zhang, Ganggang ; Xiong, Lixia ; Gong, Jiangli

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Geogr. & Environ. Sci., Jiangxi Normal Univ., Nanchang, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    10-12 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Under the guidance concept of "Changing Student\´s Learning Mode", Inquiry-based Geographic Course has been tried all over world. This paper took a research project "Landfill Site Selection" in a geographic course "GIS Introduction" of a normal university as a case study, made detailed description of the process of Inquiry-based Geographic Course and assessment of the performance among students to validate the efficacy of the approach.
  • Keywords
    educational courses; geographic information systems; GIS introduction; inquiry-based learning geographic course; landfill site selection; Accuracy; Cities and towns; Computers; Concrete; Education; Geographic Information Systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CiSE), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wuhan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5391-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5392-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CISE.2010.5677160
  • Filename
    5677160