1. Spatial Data Infrastructure GRS-21306
23/02/2019
Spatial Data Infrastructure GRS-21306
Course Introduction
Arnold Bregt
pres. 2005/2006-I: by Ron van Lammeren

2. Contents I Presentation participants and expectations
II Nature of the course
III Course structure, reader, assessment and learning environment
IV Obstacles

3. I Presentation participants and expectations
What was your location during New Year's Eve (2016/2017) ?
Name
Country
Course Expectations
Experience with SDI

4. II Nature of the course
Most GRS courses are rather methodological or technical
Quite often one best answer
The solutions works
Evaluation is more right/wrong
This SDI course is about technical but even more on organization, policy and human aspects
Argumentation, discussion, creativity
Scientific communication (symposium stetting)
Evaluation is more insufficient, adequate, good, very good

5. Bloom's taxonomy of six levels of the cognitive domain

6. III Course structure, reader, assessment and learning environment

7. III Course Structure

8. III Course Structure (elements)
Organized in weeks
Every week has a fixed format
Elements of the week are:
Introduction lecture
Reader
Case and Self-study
( Guest lecture )
Exercise
Student presentations
( Excursion )
Feedback on Exercise

9. III Course Structure Student Group form a team Result of the team:
Every week presentation on a view on Spatial Data Infrastructure
Groups need to select their own case

10. III Reader Week 1 (SDI concepts)
1. “Spatial data infrastructure for Sustainable land management” (background information)
2. “Spatial data infrastructures as Complex Adaptive Systems” (essential read)

11. III Case of the Week You compile a group of 4 persons
You select a SDI for further investigation (country, region, organisation, etc)
Every week you present on aspects of your case study
Your SDI case as a complex adaptive system
Your SDI as a technological infrastructure
Your SDI as an organisational infrastructure
The use of your SDI in a context (using ArcGIS online)

12. III Assessment Group's case presentations 0.35 Article 0.50 Exercise
0.15

13. Assessment Oral presentations will be marked
Exercise of week 1 and week 2 will be marked

14. III Learning environment

15. IV Obstacles within the course
Paper (some students still need to write the paper from two years ago)
 Try to finish within the course

16. Final Remark
Questions?