The Development of An Adaptive WebGIS Learning System for Tenth Grade Students to Learn Geographical Information Unit

• Main Authors: Wang Yao-hui, 王耀輝
• Other Authors: 陳哲銘
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74653704240727332707

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 地理學系 === 102 === In the last decade, although applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in K-12 classrooms has become a general agreement among many countries, the growing is still far from wide spreading. In Taiwan, as the National Geography Curriculum of Senior High School was applied since 2010, the 10 grade students are compulsory to learn the fundamental GIS concepts and software operation within 5 to 6 classes. Therefore it’s relevant to develop an approach for students to learn about and learn with GIS effectively. Recently, the student-centered learning has become a new learning paradigm. By integrating adaptive learning with Internet technology, an adaptive e-learning system can personalize learning approach, which may help students to learn about and learn with GIS effectively and efficiently. With the significant improvement of spatial technology, it is available for a user to process spatial analysis with WebGIS. The aim of the research is to integrate adaptive learning system with WebGIS. Based on this innovative approach, an adaptive WebGIS learning system has been developed. Students can learn GIS with a cloud computing environment. After the prototype was developed, two usability tests were conducted to improve the learnability and efficiency of the system. Compared with other educational WebGIS website in Taiwan, the system have two distinct advantages. Firstly, the WebGIS services of the system are reusable. Students can run a chain of geoprocessing services to solve a GIS problem by using this system. Secondly, the system has the capability to deliver adaptive learning. Once students have learning difficulties, the system can provide remedial instructions immediately. Therefore, students can learn GIS in their spare time without occupying the limited class hours. A quasi-experiment was conducted to evaluate whether the system can help students to learn GIS. The results demonstrate that the learners who use this system achieve better performance both in understanding GIS concepts and gaining hands-on experience than those without using the system. Therefore, the system is quite suitable as a supplementary learning tool for 10 grade students to learn GIS. It is deserveing to promote the system.