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Ravinesh Rohit Prasad; Mohammed Khalid Hassan – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2025
This paper investigates the causes of students' preference and disinclination for high school geography. The paper draws on data from 135 students from years 11, 12, and 13 (aged 16-18 years) from seven secondary schools in the Ba district, Western division, Fiji Islands. We used the posterior inductive reduction model to analyze and identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Geography Instruction
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Budi Handoyo; Purwanto; Syahrul Ridha; Geok Chin Ivy Tan – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2024
The Spatial-Based Learning (SBL) model, developed in 2018, has evolved through the application of various spatial techniques. Its 21st-century emergence prompts an analysis of its impact on critical thinking. This study aims to examine SBL's impact using Quantum Geographic Information System (SBL-QGIS) on undergraduates' critical thinking.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Geographic Information Systems, Critical Thinking
DeMers, Michael N. – Geography Teacher, 2016
Depending on how you determine the starting point for the technology driving geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing, it is well over fifty years old now. During the first years of its existence in the early 1960s, the new technology benefited relatively few students who attended the handful of college programs that were actually…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Ability, Curriculum Development
Bryant, Lara M. P. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Geographic inquiry increases higher-order thinking skills which can be supported through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The purpose of this research project examines the effect of using a Collaborative Inquiry Model (CIM) model during professional development on the rate of effective GIS implementation in K-12 classrooms. The…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Educational Technology, Thinking Skills, Phenomenology
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Martin, David; Treves, Richard – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
This paper describes how two related e-learning initiatives have led to school-level virtual learning environment (VLE) adoption and commencement of several new teaching developments at the University of Southampton. These have engaged additional academic staff with online learning and increased the role of blended learning within the curriculum,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Higher Education
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Hoel, Mark – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2004
In recent years, geomatics has had a tremendous effect on geographical education at the post-secondary level. Courses, departments and even entire colleges such as the College of Geographic Sciences in Nova Scotia, Canada, are now dedicated to its study and use. Predictably, the impact of geomatics on classroom teaching at the secondary level has…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Public Education, Curriculum Evaluation