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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CISE.2010.5677160
