{"id":7,"date":"2015-08-05T12:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T19:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alrmap\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2017-06-28T10:36:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T17:36:03","slug":"7-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alrmap\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arthurgreen4.cartodb.com\/viz\/e795a058-534a-11e5-8dad-0e8dde98a187\/embed_map\" width=\"100%\" height=\"520\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis website presents an undergraduate class project for <em>GEOB 270 Introduction to GIScience<\/em> in the Department of Geography at UBC.\u00a0The aim of the project was\u00a0to make a GIScience\u00a0contribution to inform debate around\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alrmap\/alr-background\/\">British Columbia\u2019s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project, undertaken by nearly one hundred students, used\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open science<\/a>\u00a0principles and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open data<\/a>. Over twenty teams of students conducted independent analyses of different subsections of the ALR to try to measure how much agricultural land is actually in the ALR. Do\u00a0official estimates of agricultural land used by the province and media\u00a0actually refer to agricultural land or just everything within the administrative boundaries of the ALR? If roads and other non-farm uses are permanent within the ALR boundaries, can we subtract these spatial entities and get a more accurate estimate of actual farmland?<\/p>\n<p>The students&#8217; final reports, maps, and spatial data provide an open resource for people interested in BC\u2019s agricultural lands. Team subsection data, aggregated provincial data, team reports, and an instructor data analysis\u00a0are all\u00a0available <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alrmap\/downloads\/\">for download on this website\u00a0<\/a>under <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alrmap\/contact\/\">Creative Commons licensing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This website provides a brief overview\u00a0of the project process and the three groups of\u00a0outcomes\u00a0from the project:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What are the actual results of the analyses conducted during\u00a0the project?<\/li>\n<li>Were\u00a0the learning outcomes for students achieved through this type of GIScience project?<\/li>\n<li>What lessons learned can be taken away for instructors implementing open pedagogy projects?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>From the instructor standpoint, this class\u00a0project and website represent an attempt to implement <a href=\"https:\/\/open.bccampus.ca\/2015\/02\/04\/a-pre-flight-check-response-to-wileys-open-pedagogy-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open pedagogy principles<\/a>\u00a0for achieving student learning outcomes in GIScience courses. Open pedagogy engages open resources (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open data<\/a>) and open approaches to research (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open science<\/a>) to create effective learning design. In this case, we based the learning around an opportunity to make an\u00a0authentic, real-world contribution to an issue that is often brought up in our provincial politics. It is a move towards learner-centered assessment and away from <a href=\"http:\/\/opencontent.org\/blog\/archives\/2975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disposable assignments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in this project include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The entire Fall 2015 cohort of students in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giscience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introduction to Geographic Information Science (GEOB 270) course<\/a>. Individual student contributions can be seen in student reports available on our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/alrmap\/downloads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.ubc.ca\/persons\/sally-hermansen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sally Hermanen<\/a>, head instructor for GEOB 270 and Senior Instructor in the Department of Geography.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.ubc.ca\/persons\/arthur-green\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur Gill Green<\/a>, Affiliate Assistant Professor and former UBC Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.ubc.ca\/persons\/jose-aparicio\/?login\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jose Aparicio<\/a>, Computer Lab Supervisor (and TRIM expert extraordinaire) \u00a0for the Department of Geography.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.ubc.ca\/persons\/eva-cregoliz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eva Crego Liz<\/a>, teaching assistant and masters\u00a0student in the Department of Geography.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.ubc.ca\/persons\/tobias-muller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tobias Muller<\/a>, teaching assistant and doctoral candidate\u00a0in the Department of Geography.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website presents an undergraduate class project for GEOB 270 Introduction to GIScience in the Department of Geography at UBC.\u00a0The aim of the project was\u00a0to make a GIScience\u00a0contribution to inform debate around\u00a0British Columbia\u2019s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). 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