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The paper forms part of the presentation of the results from a resarch projct looking into socio-... more The paper forms part of the presentation of the results from a resarch projct looking into socio-economic and environmental aspects of the HIV/ADIS epidemic. The project focuses on Tanzania with a special refernce to Karagwe and Muleba districts in Kagera Region and Makete District in Iringa Region. In this report a more aggregate level is investigated, however. In demographic terms changes in important demographic measures - particuarly Dependency Ratios - that could be related to the AIDS epidemic are investigated in a spatio-temporal perspective. In addition changes in land use patterns in Kagera and Iringa Regions are looked at in an attempt to see if such changes could alos be related to the epidemic.
Geographic Information Science, 2007
The Master of Science course "Geo-information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Mod... more The Master of Science course "Geo-information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management" (GEM) is an 18 months GI education offered by four European Universities. In this paper we discuss the development of the course, as well as "practices and pitfalls". The need for "true partnerships", where the partners trust in each other and have a common view on e.g. aims, ideas, agreements and flexibility in order to create a successful program is stressed.
Leonardo da Vinci Community Vocational Training Action Programme's pilot project within Geographi... more Leonardo da Vinci Community Vocational Training Action Programme's pilot project within Geographical Information Science (GIS), should be implemented over a three year period, 2002-2005. The main objectives of the project is to establish cooperation between European Universities and GIS user organisations and to develop modularised courses intended for Internet based learning, establish links of communications between the partners in the project in order to disseminate and share "best practises" in different teaching situations and for different types of students. The course modules to be developed, all together, will constitute a one-year programme within GIS. This project mainly targets full time students, private and civil service employees within the EU but also similar categories in non-EU countries. The course modules are supposed to be flexible both in time and in "tempo". However, synchronous group models will also be considered. The outcomes of the project will be high level content, new net-based pedagogic method suited for accessing target groups of great diversity as regards pedagogic traditions, access to computers and bandwidth. Cooperation between the institutions will, certainly, give higher level courses than the individual institutions could possibly themselves.
Geographic Information Science, 2007
Landscape and Urban Planning, Dec 1, 2008
This article was published in an Elsevier journal. The attached copy is furnished to the author f... more This article was published in an Elsevier journal. The attached copy is furnished to the author for non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the author's institution, sharing with colleagues and providing to institution administration. Other uses, including reproduction and distribution, or selling or licensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third party websites are prohibited. In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: http://www.elsevier.com/copyright
Universities and GIS education institutions, develop eight modularised GIS-courses (equivalent to... more Universities and GIS education institutions, develop eight modularised GIS-courses (equivalent to one year full time studies) and to implement and run the courses at least once during the project period in order to evaluate the adopted concepts. The LUMA-GIS is a top master program that requires the applicants to hold a bachelor degree to enter and the duration is two years. At present the program has 4 compulsory courses and 13 elective (apart from the 30 ECTS thesis). The program uses the E-GIS courses to certain extent but these are further developed to be presented as a harmonised education program. The concept of using short modules, offered on full time as well as part time, has several advantages to traditional long (10 to 20 weeks) courses, a fact that was also recognised when further developing the E-GIS courses to fit the LUMA-GIS program. Some major issues related both to course development in an international context and to the adoption of existing material into a harmon...
Drop-out is one of the major challenges to E-learning. This paper reports the initial findings fr... more Drop-out is one of the major challenges to E-learning. This paper reports the initial findings from a drop-out study and discusses causes of drop-out within the LUMA-GIS student community. The study is part of the research project Learning in the ICT-Extended University: Experienced context and constituted meaning in ICT-supported outreach initiatives involving flexibility and diversity, at Lund University and is sponsored by the Swedish National Science Foundation. The 100 drop-out students were by email sent an open invitation were they were asked to elaborate their experiences and understanding on why they are behind there chosen study tempo or have decided to leave the course. 63 students have answered. One of the main findings is that only a minority (8 out of 63) find themselves to be drop-out students. Instead, they expressed a high level of satisfaction with the course. Our preliminary analyses of data thus showed complex reasons for not following their scheduled tempo; a mi...
The paper forms part of the presentation of the results from a resarch projct looking into socio-... more The paper forms part of the presentation of the results from a resarch projct looking into socio-economic and environmental aspects of the HIV/ADIS epidemic. The project focuses on Tanzania with a special refernce to Karagwe and Muleba districts in Kagera Region and Makete District in Iringa Region. In this report a more aggregate level is investigated, however. In demographic terms changes in important demographic measures - particuarly Dependency Ratios - that could be related to the AIDS epidemic are investigated in a spatio-temporal perspective. In addition changes in land use patterns in Kagera and Iringa Regions are looked at in an attempt to see if such changes could alos be related to the epidemic.
Geographic Information Science, 2007
The Master of Science course "Geo-information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Mod... more The Master of Science course "Geo-information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management" (GEM) is an 18 months GI education offered by four European Universities. In this paper we discuss the development of the course, as well as "practices and pitfalls". The need for "true partnerships", where the partners trust in each other and have a common view on e.g. aims, ideas, agreements and flexibility in order to create a successful program is stressed.
Leonardo da Vinci Community Vocational Training Action Programme's pilot project within Geographi... more Leonardo da Vinci Community Vocational Training Action Programme's pilot project within Geographical Information Science (GIS), should be implemented over a three year period, 2002-2005. The main objectives of the project is to establish cooperation between European Universities and GIS user organisations and to develop modularised courses intended for Internet based learning, establish links of communications between the partners in the project in order to disseminate and share "best practises" in different teaching situations and for different types of students. The course modules to be developed, all together, will constitute a one-year programme within GIS. This project mainly targets full time students, private and civil service employees within the EU but also similar categories in non-EU countries. The course modules are supposed to be flexible both in time and in "tempo". However, synchronous group models will also be considered. The outcomes of the project will be high level content, new net-based pedagogic method suited for accessing target groups of great diversity as regards pedagogic traditions, access to computers and bandwidth. Cooperation between the institutions will, certainly, give higher level courses than the individual institutions could possibly themselves.
Geographic Information Science, 2007
Landscape and Urban Planning, Dec 1, 2008
This article was published in an Elsevier journal. The attached copy is furnished to the author f... more This article was published in an Elsevier journal. The attached copy is furnished to the author for non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the author's institution, sharing with colleagues and providing to institution administration. Other uses, including reproduction and distribution, or selling or licensing copies, or posting to personal, institutional or third party websites are prohibited. In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: http://www.elsevier.com/copyright
Universities and GIS education institutions, develop eight modularised GIS-courses (equivalent to... more Universities and GIS education institutions, develop eight modularised GIS-courses (equivalent to one year full time studies) and to implement and run the courses at least once during the project period in order to evaluate the adopted concepts. The LUMA-GIS is a top master program that requires the applicants to hold a bachelor degree to enter and the duration is two years. At present the program has 4 compulsory courses and 13 elective (apart from the 30 ECTS thesis). The program uses the E-GIS courses to certain extent but these are further developed to be presented as a harmonised education program. The concept of using short modules, offered on full time as well as part time, has several advantages to traditional long (10 to 20 weeks) courses, a fact that was also recognised when further developing the E-GIS courses to fit the LUMA-GIS program. Some major issues related both to course development in an international context and to the adoption of existing material into a harmon...
Drop-out is one of the major challenges to E-learning. This paper reports the initial findings fr... more Drop-out is one of the major challenges to E-learning. This paper reports the initial findings from a drop-out study and discusses causes of drop-out within the LUMA-GIS student community. The study is part of the research project Learning in the ICT-Extended University: Experienced context and constituted meaning in ICT-supported outreach initiatives involving flexibility and diversity, at Lund University and is sponsored by the Swedish National Science Foundation. The 100 drop-out students were by email sent an open invitation were they were asked to elaborate their experiences and understanding on why they are behind there chosen study tempo or have decided to leave the course. 63 students have answered. One of the main findings is that only a minority (8 out of 63) find themselves to be drop-out students. Instead, they expressed a high level of satisfaction with the course. Our preliminary analyses of data thus showed complex reasons for not following their scheduled tempo; a mi...