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The
University of Leeds is part of a £1.5m
collaboration to develop an international
online resource for teaching and learning
geography.
Leeds joins Southampton, Penn State and California
– all members of the Worldwide Universities
Network (WUN). The project will deliver shared
UK/US online resources to support courses
in four subject areas: human geography, geographical
information science (GIS), geomorphology and
earth observation. Students will have access
to previously unavailable materials, including
university archives and research data from
partner organisations around the world.
Professor Philip Rees said: “This is
a unique opportunity to introduce exciting
new materials and knowledge into the undergraduate
geography curriculum. We will be developing
modules based around the 2000 US census and
the 2001 UK census, enabling students to learn
about their own country and about their transatlantic
‘cousins’.”
Other resources include digital map databases,
remote sensed images, earth observation images
and geospatial information, mostly held in
the digital Alexandria Library at the University
of California. The project benefits from extensive
expertise in virtual learning environments
at Leeds and Penn State, and in digital libraries
at California and Southampton. The five-year
project is funded by the UK’s Joint Infrastructure
Systems Committee (JISC) and the National
Science Foundation (NSF) in the US.
See
the full press release.
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