Infusing Educational Practice with Web GIS

Abstract

Three manifestations of Web GIS are influencing the way GIS is being used to teach with GIS and about GIS. These manifestations include web mapping and analysis, teaching with and creating web mapping applications, and collecting data using field-based citizen science mapping tools. This chapter investigates how these maps, data sets, tools, and methods can be taught in a wide variety of settings, educational levels, and disciplines. The advent of Web GIS is not simply the migration of GIS tools and data to the cloud, but rather represents a shift in how GIS can be perceived, taught, and learned.