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Direct linkDrennon, Christine – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2005
How, where and why GIS is taught has been debated heavily in the geography literature. This article is a contribution to that debate, because it offers a new perspective from which to teach GIS: problem-based learning. In a problem-based learning classroom, theoretical foundations and the real world of problems are understood as constitutive of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Information Systems, Problem Based Learning, Geography
