This presentation was given at the Esri Education User Conference (2015) on my research to introduce the GIS tutorial website built to teach interdisciplinary researchers GIS (GIS Lessons for You [www.patrickrickles.com/tutorial])

1. Informal/Non-Formal Ways of Learning GIS In
Interdisciplinary Research
Patrick Rickles

2. This is me
I’m a geo-geek

3. This is Jerome
He’s an Anthropologist

4. We deal with different things
We learn in different ways

5. But we work together using
locational analyses

6. I learn some Anthropology
He learns some GIS

7. Interdisciplinary
Research isn’t easy…
Learning GIS isn’t easy…

8. We Find the Challenges
-Knowledge Gap

9. We Try the Solutions
-Team-building
-Training

10. We Identify What to
Learn
GIS&T BoK
-Geospatial Data
-Cartography &
Visualisation

11. So, learn together how to make maps and data

12. But he’s in the Congo now… And I’m here…

13. We have the Internet!

14. Use the Internet to
Create a
Virtual
Situated
Learning
Environment

15. Introducing
“GIS Lessons
For You”
www.patrickrickles.com/tutorial

16. Contextually
relevant things
interdisciplinary
researchers
want to learn to
do using ArcGIS
Online

17. -(More) User Friendly
-Cloud-Based
-Wealth of Resources
Why
?

18. Check out
“GIS Lessons for You”
and learn together
wherever you are