Updated Instructor Resources for GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1
If you’ve adopted GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1, the instructor resources are here! Read on to learn more about these resources from the authors, Wilpen L. Gorr and Kristen S. Kurland.
We are award-winning professors at Carnegie Mellon University who have been writing GIS textbooks and teaching GIS for over 25 years. Besides developing our own textbook writing skills, we have learned much from our students’ feedback, suggestions from GIS instructors around the world, and from CMU’s Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation Center.
GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1 is our introductory GIS textbook with step-by-step tutorials for ArcGIS Pro, and it’s our job to help get those materials to stick and integrate. To that end, we have several innovative features in our materials.
- First, each lecture starts with a “map” of the whole course, showing what you will learn today and how it is related to other parts of the course. Getting the big picture is really important for learning.
- Next, we keep our hands-on tutorial exercises short, on one topic at a time with at most 10 steps each. Such “chunks” are best for learning and provide a sense of accomplishment.
- Fairly often, we include “Your Turn” assignments that have you repeat steps just taken, but in slightly modified ways or with new data. Repetition with Your Turns starts the internalization process.
- Then we provide end-of-chapter assignments, available for download. These assignments have students apply materials presented in a chapter with new datasets and problem areas, to take them further along the path to retaining and integrating workflows and tool use.
- We always end our classes with a GIS project assignment of students’ own designs. That all makes GIS work and stick.
Besides classroom teaching, we also teach GIS courses online, and so have prepared video lectures, keyed to GIS Tutorial for ArcGIS Pro 3.1. So it’s like sitting in our class to learn underlying GIS concepts, workflows, analyses, and applications. Once updated, these videos will be available upon request after the start of the Fall term.
Instructors can find the resources, which include assignment solutions and grading rubrics, from Esri Press. We hope that you find these resources helpful in designing your curriculum.
The instructor resources are available through VitalSource. Read this blog to find out how to access these, and be sure to add the e-book from the educator portal to your Bookshelf library.