Development of the online learning system for GIS practical training and implementations of classes

Abstract

The objectives of this paper are: first, to report the methods of developing on-line learning materials for exercising GIS software; and to report students’ achievement observed from the access logs of the on-line web-server and their test results. The authors and their four colleagues conducted classes using the on-line learning system. From the access-logs of their classes, the followings were observed. First, the students learned how to use GIS according to the instructions of the teachers. Second, the students spent much time when the operation of the software was complicated; when the software interface was not sensitive against wrong operation; and when the students were supposed to fill in conditions according to a fixed format. Third, in the undergraduate classes, the average score approached a standard level as the students repeated tests; in the master-course classes, the students tried tests until they got full marks.