1. Innovative Learning Week
Introduction to GIS
Innovative Learning Week

2. Aims Understand Basic GIS Concepts
Discrete Entity vs. Continuous Field (Data Model)
Raster vs. Vector (Data Structure)
Basic Familiarity with ESRI ArcGIS and/or a typical GIS
Gain experience of basic processing, analysis, cartography/visualisation
Know of free/opensource (FOSS) alternatives, e.g. QGIS
Know that GIS is more than a desktop GIS package… Web GIS, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Data Science

3. Also,
Appreciate the applicability of GIS to different subjects as well as its own discipline: spatial analysis and cartographic/visualisation techniques (i.e. spatial data science), from…
Student-led review
Peer exchange
Traditional death-by-ppt and practical techniques – they still work too!