Teaching and Learning Geospatial Programming in Geographic Information Systems

A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 359

Special Issue Editors

College of Natural Resources and the Environment, Virginia Tech, 225 Wallace Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA
Interests: GIS; lidar; terrain processing; geovisualization; spatial cognition; human movement modeling; geography education
Lecturer and Geography Program Head, Department of Geosciences and Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 627 North Pleasant Street 233 Morrill Science Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9297, USA
Interests: GIS education; geography education; geography in higher education; CyberGIS; computational thinking

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Aims and Scope

GIS and geography have had strong computational thinking and computer programming components since the early days of the quantitative revolution. Today, research, industry, and government expectations for graduates of geospatial science programs often include such experience, yet many programs have been slow to respond to this demand. In this Special Issue, we examine the history of computational pedagogy within the geographic information science community, its relationship to wider trends in computer science and other STEM fields, and provide a look at challenges, trends, and likely future directions.

This Special Issue aims to provide a general picture of recent research activities related to geospatial programming education. We invite the submission of original research contributions including (but not limited to):

  • Characterizing student experiences in geospatial programming courses;
  • Parallel issues in computer science and other STEM fields;
  • Studies examining the current state of the pedagogy of programming in GIS;
  • Best practices and methodologies for teaching;
  • Papers from longtime educators describing the evolution of the field;
  • Impacts of pedagogy in this domain related to gender, race, and identity;
  • Issues related to open-source versus proprietary platforms;
  • Comparisons between different languages related to education (Python, R, Java, C, and others) and tools to support them (IDEs, Notebooks, etc.);
  • Development of supportive pedagogical resources (Textbooks, websites, activities) for geospatial programming instruction;
  • Barriers to the development of additional instruction or better instruction in GIS programs.

Dr. Thomas J. Pingel
Dr. Forrest J. Bowlick
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • programming
  • computer science
  • GIS education
  • geography education
  • computational thinking

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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