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Students use a variety of data sets (bathy DEMs, SRTM DEMS, earthquake data, volcano data, ocean floor ages, and motion vectors) to 1) determine the locations and types of plate boundaries in the complex region between the Pacific and Australian Plates, 2) create a topologically valid plate map of the region (which identical to making a geologic map in ArcMap, so it teaches them how to make a geologic map as well), 3) make a poster presentation with a cartographically complete map and illustrated rationale for plate boundaries, and 4) do an extension on plotting strike and dip data in ArcMap. You might also be interested in our Full GIS course with links to all assignments.

Los proyectos de esta guía utilizan un enfoque centrado en los alumnos para el aprendizaje. En lugar de solo aprender acerca de la IA con videos o conferencias, los alumnos que realizan estos proyectos son participantes activos en la exploración de ella. En el proceso, los estudiantes trabajarán directamente con tecnologías innovadoras de IA, participarán en actividades no en línea para ampliar su comprensión de cómo funcionan las tecnologías de IA y crearán diversos productos auténticos
desde modelos de aprendizaje automático hasta videojuegos— para demostrar su aprendizaje.

PROYECTO 1: Programación con aprendizaje automático
PROYECTO 2: Jugadores asistidos por IA en videojuegos
PROYECTO 3: Uso de la IA para planificar movimientos robóticos
PROYECTO 4: El aprendizaje automático como un servicio

Esta guía ofrece proyectos centrados en los alumnos que pueden enseñar directamente estándares de áreas de estudio en conjunto con comprensiones fundamentales de los que es la IA, cómo funciona y cómo impacta a la sociedad. Fueron considerados varios enfoques clave para diseñar estos proyectos. Entender estos enfoques sustentará su comprensión y la implementación de los proyectos de esta guía, así como su trabajo para diseñar más actividades que integren la enseñanza sobre la IA en su plan de estudios.

PROYECTO 1: Lo que la IA hace bien y lo que no hace tan bien
PROYECTO 2: Datos de entrenamiento y aprendizaje automático
PROYECTO 3: Los sentidos comparados con los sensores
PROYECTO 4: Navegación e IA

Esta guía ofrece proyectos centrados en los alumnos que pueden enseñar directamente estándares de áreas de estudio en conjunto con comprensiones fundamentales de los que es la IA, cómo funciona y cómo impacta a la sociedad. Fueron considerados varios enfoques clave para diseñar estos proyectos. Entender estos enfoques sustentará su comprensión y la implementación de los proyectos de esta guía, así como su trabajo para diseñar más actividades que integren la enseñanza sobre la IA en su plan de estudios.

PROYECTO 1: Chatbots de IA
PROYECTO 2: Desarrollo de una mirada crítica
PROYECTO 3: Uso de la IA para resolver problemas del medio ambiente
PROYECTO 4: Leyes para la IA

En esta guía, la exploración de la IA por parte de los alumnos se enmarca en el contexto de las consideraciones éticas, y en concordancia con los estándares, conceptos y profundidad adecuados para varias materias de K–12. Dependiendo del nivel de sus alumnos y la cantidad de tiempo que tenga disponible, puede completar todas las actividades de Inicio hasta las actividades de Demostraciones culminantes; puede seleccionar actividades de la lista; o puede llevar el aprendizaje de los alumnos más lejos, aprovechando las extensiones y recursos adicionales proporcionados. Para los alumnos sin experiencia previa de formación en la IA, la exposición misma a las actividades de aprendizaje guiadas creará una comprensión de su mundo que probablemente no tenían antes. Y para aquellos con conocimientos previos en informática o con la IA, los proyectos y recursos completos seguirán desafiando su razonamiento y los expondrán a nuevas tecnologías y aplicaciones de la IA en diversos campos de estudio.

PROYECTO 1: Lo justo es justo
PROYECTO 2: ¿Quién tiene el control?
PROYECTO 3: Las ventajas y desventajas de la tecnología de la IA
PROYECTO 4: La IA y el trabajador del siglo XXI

Students download and merge the multiple sheets of the New York State Geologic Map together and reclassify units to create an attractive and legible version of the state geologic map at postcard scale. The class votes on the winning layout, and we have postcards printed at OvernightPrints.com *Special thanks to Brian Hynek, University of Colorado, for the basic idea for this exercise.* You might also be interested in our Full GIS course with links to all assignments.

Students use the ALTA reflectance spectrometer to understand concepts in active vs. passive remote sensing, reflectance, and the creation and relevance of reflectance spectra.

Rock the Boat is an open-access multimedia resource designed to provoke dialogue about graduate supervision relationships within universities, and their impact on student and faculty wellbeing. Drawing upon the tradition of Research-based Theatre, Rock the Boat draws attention to graduate supervision as a vital form of pedagogy, and as rife with challenges — especially relating to equity, inclusion and diversity.

Researchers, scholars and scientists main business is scholarly communication. We communicate about our work to others, as we push the boundaries of what we know and the society knows. We question established notions and truths about science. We share our findings with others, and in a way that is popularly known as scholarly communication which emerged with the publication of first journal in 1665. However, the term gained popularity only in the 1970s, as access to peer reviewed and scholarly communication became difficult. This module has four units covering introduction to scholarly communication, peer reviewed journals, electronica journals and databases and the Serials Crisis. At the end of this module, the learner is expected to be able to:
- Explain philosophy, mission, and objectives of scholarly communication
- Describe the process of scholarly communication
- Identify different channels of scholarly communication
- Discuss the dysfunctioning of the scholarly communication
In Unit 1, Introduction to scholarly communication, we have discussed different aspects of scholarly communication – particularly its genesis, importance and ethics of academic publishing, and different communication channels available in academic publishing. Some of these channels are commonly described as primary sources as they provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence concerning a topic under investigation. Historically, scientific journals were initiated by learned societies and other scholarly communities for reporting results of concluded research works or scientific discoveries. Now many forprofit publishers have started publishing research journals.
Unit 2, Communicating with Peer Review Journals, covers two important academic publishing channels, namely peer reviewed journals, conferences and their proceedings. This Unit also highlights different methods and procedures of peer reviewing for publishing primary literature emanated from research studies. The peer reviewing is essential for validating quality of research findings conveyed by researchers, which are subject to fulfilment of ethical standards and appropriate research design, sampling and other methodological issues.
In Unit 3, Electronic journals and databases, we have discussed the emergence of electronic journals in academic and research environment due to wide proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in research communications and academic publishing. Scientific communities and scientific communications from the global South are getting substantive attentions through adaptation of electronic journals and electronic academic databases in the process of research communications.
In Unit 4, the Serials Crisis, we discuss the cost of peer reviewed publications and the problems faced by researchers in developing countries. The focus of this unit is on highlighting the problems and discusses possible solutions including the emergence of open access as one of the solutions. Open access journal publishing helps in mitigating some of the problems associated with serials crisis.
This is Module One of the UNESCO's Open Access Curriculum for Researchers.
Full-Text is available at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002319/231938e.pdf

Modules 1 through 4 are organized around essential distance learning topics for anyone who is supporting a student whilst in their care. Each module invites choice and personalization. These self-paced, independent experiences are designed with the hope that you will tailor your online experience to your individual supporting needs and interests.
Module 1: What is a Learning Management System (LMS)
Module 2: Creating an At-Home Learning System
Module 3: Support Like a Coach
Module 4: Encourage a Growth Mindset -Why Struggle is Good for Learning

Student will use geospatial tools (WebGIS and/or ArcGIS 9.3) to create a total of 4 original maps that begin to provide a solution to a real world environmental problem. The Project Problem Statement will guide the students project. Two of these maps may come from exercises if they are appropriate to answer the project problem statement. The project topics will be determined by the student from a list of topic options (e.g., climate, energy, agriculture, sustainable practices). Other topics may be approved at the discretion of the instructor. For example, a student may choose to create a map that will represent the various energy source option(s) in one region of the United States. All students will write a 2-3 page essay on their topic. References are required. Students essay and the 4 maps will be presented in various manners. Most students will use an electronic template and design their PowerPoint poster. With approval from the instructor, students can present their findings via a video (collaborate with video department), mural (collaborate with art department) or develop a Web page (Second Life or web page). Student projects may be highlighted at MCC functions (e.g., Sustainability Day, GIS Day, Scholars Day, and/or Earth Day). Some projects may continue each semester as new students take the course and begin where the last student left off. A sample project might describe the current climatic condition, recent climate changes, evaluate the various energy source option(s), and present an energy plan for the future in one region of the United States.

This is the last Module of the course on Open Access for researchers. So far you have studied about Open Access, its history, advantages, initiatives, copyrights and licensing, evaluation matrix for research – all in the context of scholarly communication. In this Module with just two units, we would like to help you share your work in Open Access though repositories and journals. At the end of this module, you are expected to be able to:
- Understand the publication process involved in dissemination of scholarly works;
- Choose appropriate Open Access journals and repositories for sharing research results;
- Use social media to promote personal research work and build reputation.
In Unit 1, we discuss the research publication process at five stages – planning stage, preparing stage, pre-publication stage, publication stage and postpublication stage. We emphasize the importance of social media in sharing and making your work visible to the target groups.
In Unit 2, we focus on sharing your research through OA repositories and Journals. First we discussed the different types of repositories to select and highlighted the steps that you may consider including deposit in your own institutional repositories or in global open repositories. We then discuss the sources of finding and deciding on OA journals. This unit also provides guidance on choosing the right OA journals, as the quality of OA journals is often questioned.
This is Module Five of the UNESCO's Open Access Curriculum for Researchers.
Full-Text is available at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002322/232211E.pdf

This activity uses GIS methods to subtract the isostatic rebound from a DEM in order to create a map of the shoreline of Glacial Lake Hitchcock. Students are then able to evaluate how delta surfaces reflect the past levels of the lake.

This is a simple lab exercise early in the semester to teach student the limitation of raster data structure, simple buffer and overlay operation without using computer. It helps students to get in the habit of drawing flow diagrams.

In this activity, students use 1:5,000,000 scale continent-wide Antarctic data sets of surface elevation, ice thickness, bedrock topography, rock outcroppings, and coast lines to examine the effects of ice removal and sea level rise on the physiography of the continent. Datasets come from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the BEDMAP project.

The emphasis of the exercise is on the nuts and bolts of some of the tools in the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension for analysis and display of raster data, with considerably less emphasis on higher order thinking skills. Quoting from the introduction "What does Antarctica look like beneath the ice? A continent of mountain ranges, deep valleys, plains, inland seas, offshore islands and the like exists there, for the most part invisible but for a few features that protrude above the ice. Wouldn't it be nice to have a topographic map in shaded relief of Antarctica without the ice and with oceans filling areas that are below sea level? Wouldn't it be even nicer to have such a map that accounted for the isostatic rise of the land surface that would occur after the weight of the ice was removed? What would the continent look like if sea level rose by an amount equal to the volume of the water locked up as ice? How much ice is there? Digital data are available to make such maps and answers these questions, as is software to do so. Let's have a crack at it!"

The exercise was originally written for ArcGIS 9.0 ArcInfo with Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst extensions. It is entirely compatible with ArcGIS 9.3 ArcInfo with Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst extensions. 3D Analyst is used to calculate ice area/volume (a minor component of the exercise) but is otherwise not required

Students are given a week to finish this take-home exam. The exam tests GIS concepts, solving GIS question using real research data,and building a model to map the cuddybear habitat. This activity gives students practice in GIS functions learned from previous lab and also requires students to think independently to solve real GIS questions.

Technology has changed dramatically over the last couple of decades. Currently, virtually all business industries are powered by large quantities of data. The potential as well as actual uses of business data, which oftentimes includes personal user data, raise complex issues of informed consent and data protection. This course will explore many of these complex issues, with the goal of guiding students into thinking about tech policy from a broad ethical perspective as well as preparing students to responsibly conduct themselves in different areas and industries in a world growingly dominated by technology.

This Softchalk lesson describes the best practices in the creation of text based lessons for teachers.

This lab introduces students to Thermal infrared Imagery and then asks them to evaluate which wavelengths (VIS, NIR, SWIR, or TIR) are the best choices to identify and discriminate between geologic materials. The lab focuses on the Geology in the Lake Mead Region east of Las Vegas, NV; the lab uses a Landsat image and a MASTER image of the area. Students get experience with a classic band combination using TIR to identify rock types and with making decisions on which wavelengths to use in identifying surface materials.