Here is something to think about: Some of Penn State’s current Department of Geography students weren’t even born when Online Geospatial Education at Penn State offered its first class. While online classes are now considered normal, for the educators who launched these distance education courses in the late 1990s, it was a novel and risky venture.
Kaltura is Penn State’s new media management and storage platform that seamlessly integrates with Canvas and allows users to create and stream content from any device at any time.
A team of Penn State graduate students recently received the 2018 Michael P. Murphy Award in Geospatial Intelligence, a Penn State endowed scholarship award, for work they did during a geospatial intelligence course offered though the John A. Dutton e-Education Institute.
As regions across the Atlantic Ocean were bracing for a recent string of hurricanes, real-time lessons were being explored around the globe in a class taught through Penn State World Campus in partnership with the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ John A. Dutton e-Education Institute.
Vera Cole, energy and sustainability policy program chair, was awarded the Epstein Lifetime Achievement Award for her roles with Penn State’s energy and sustainability policy online programs offered through Penn State World Campus and with the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association.
This summer, Penn State Department of Geography online geospatial education program instructors Beth King and Fritz Kessler took 10 students in the online Master of Geographic Information Systems (MGIS) program on a unique field-learning experience. In the new eight-week course, GEOG 597G: Challenges in Global Geospatial Analytics, Penn State students collaborated with graduate students from the Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, located in Enschede, Netherlands, to develop solutions to analyze spatiotemporal patterns in refugee migration data.
Author, administrative leader, University senator and even student — these are just a few of the roles Ann Taylor has held over the more than 20 years she has spent in the Penn State community, and they’ve all played a role in helping her achieve her career goals.
Tyson J. Quink, a Penn State student, was selected to receive the 2016 Lt. Michael P. Murphy Award in Geospatial Intelligence. He was honored on June 28 during the 2016 Esri User Conference held in San Diego, California.
Fifteen years ago, John Dutton, then dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS), had a vision for creating an institute focused on developing the best online courses possible. He established EMS’s e-Education Institute in 2000, which, in 2003, was renamed in his honor. The John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, in its 15 year history, has grown considerably and today focuses on both World Campus and residential “Web” instruction, as well as massive, open online courses (MOOCs).
A general education course at Penn State has been revamped to include interactive videos designed to teach students about conservation and sustainability. The course, Global Parks and Sustainability (GEOG 001), will be taught online in spring 2016 by Erica Smithwick, associate professor of geography in Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and will satisfy students’ social and behavioral science general education (GS) and international cultures (IL) requirements.
