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The Grand Challenge
Can geographers collaborate as a discipline to realize
the potential of the Web in higher education?
Can we develop a model of disciplinary collaboration
that can set an example for others?
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| Why Geography? |
Good size, good people, good projects, and good facilities. Lots of
departments
and courses
already on-line.
Geography for Life, Rediscovering
Geography, Alliances,
GIGI, ARGUS, AP Geography,
CCGII and HDGC, Power
of Place, Geography
Discipline Network (UK), Core
Curriculum in GIScience, Core Curriculum
in Remote Sensing |
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| The Potential |
The pull and promise of the technology itself and the changing fortunes
and context of higher education at the millenium:
Rudenstine, A Close Fit
Chickering and Gamson, Seven Principles of Good
Practice |
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| The Barriers |
Our entire academic genre de vie: attitudes, preconceptions,
misconceptions, rewards, and host of other individual, economic, social,
and institutional factors.
See also William F. Massy and Robert Zemsky. 1995. Using
Information Technology to Enhance Academic Productivity on "Barriers
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| Models |
In the beginning, the Web was without form and void.
But, the shaping of the universe has begun and we are not alone...
Models are developing both inside and outside geography,
both non-commercial and commercial |
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