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Geo-ICTs for Good: a MOOC on GIScience for Climate Justice

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Geo-ICTs for Good: a MOOC on GIScience for Climate Justice
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The last two decades have seen the development and diffusion of new technologies and digital ecosystems for managing geographic data. These include, among others, smartphones, drones and open access satellites on the one hand, and the web 4.0, GIS, WebGIS, geo-app and georeferenced data, both open-source or proprietary, on the other. This great variety of tools, accompanied by the sharing of new digital knowledge and skills, have made the creation and management of spatial information much more accessible than it was in the past. This has led to a proliferation of processes for exploring, creating and sharing geographical data from below as a way for citizens, that assume the role of neo-geographers or prosumers, to take part in decision-making in different kind of processes, such as territorial, environmental and climate change issues (Goodchild, 2009; Capineri et al., 2016; See et al., 2016). However, these are ongoing processes that have still to face technological, cognitive and economic barriers. Universities with the use of open-source geo-information and communication technologies (Geo-ICTs) in enhance geographical learning should be a primary actor in supporting students and citizens in developing their own spatial thinking in a more efficient and engaging way (Käyhkö et al., 2021). In fact, this is remarked also in objective 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals "to guarantee quality, inclusive and equitable education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” and many universities have signed the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) which commits them to integrate the concepts of sustainable development into the curricula. In this framework is involved also University of Padova (Italy) with its Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Climate Justice (Jean Monnet Erasmus+ project 2021-2023) led by the research group “Climate change, territories, diversities” (https://www.climate-justice.earth/). The Centre is trying to respond to the need of bringing the issues of Climate Justice and just transition from the EU Green Deal framework into the dialogue between the academic world, society, and policy makers. To do this, it is carrying out different research and didactical activities, among which the development of a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on GIScience for Climate Justice with the use of opensource and freeware Geo-ICTs, that will be freely available for all before the end of 2022. This MOOC will provide videos and materials about practical activities concerning climate change and climate justice issues, that the students can carry out autonomously using open-source and freeware tools. For every activity the workflow and a graphical abstract will be provided with aims and skills to be acquired and an introductive video with a real example of use and suggestions about how to build collective projects of citizen science. An auto-evaluation module will be available to students. MOOC will be tested with selected students and eventually adjusted before its online publication. A feedback and comment area to interact with staff members will be also available in the platform. The programme will follow learning by doing approach and is design to drive students through the main phases of a GIScience project: - The exploration and use of the European Platforms (e.g Earth Observation Portals, Joint Research portals, European Environment Agency portals, European Environmental Bureau) - The exploration and use of the Geonode on Climate Justice, the geo-platform of the Centre that will be available to everyone with all the information collected by the Centre and the possibility to create online maps and to upload and share data by interested users or association groups. - The Collection and sharing of environmental and social information using geo-app and webGIS (e.g odk collect app and ona platform) - The exploration and use of Google Earth Pro and the OpenStreetMap project Umap - The creation of storymaps to share climate change fighting initiatives and climate justice stories on the web (e.g knight lab storymap and geonode storymap tools) By completing the MOOC, students will learn how to autonomously update and increase their knowledge on climate change and climate justice issues, learning to navigate and use European platforms and portals and to search for the documentation available in the European and international institutions. Practical activities will improve skills of students and organizations of civil society to obtain and use data and information produced by European institutions, to produce and share their own data, and to prepare and manage collaborative projects for sustainability and environmental monitoring. Open-source software will be also the basis for the setup of the MOOC, from its preparation using open video editing and open document formats, to its publication using the Moodle of the University of Padova. In this contribution, the theoretical background, the entire methodology and workflow process for the preparation and dissemination of the MOOC will be presented and discussed, with the aim to disseminate and share this experience to actors interested in developing similar activities of using of Geo-ICTs for Good.
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Hello everybody. So the Yes, the title of my presentation is GEO-ICTS for good, a MOOC on the science for climate justice. With this short presentation, I want to show you to present one of the
activities, one of the products of the Center of Excellence on Climate Justice, J'aumont-Rasmusbras project, that will last for till 2023, okay, for three years. And we are carrying out different kind of activities, research activities, and didactic activities also, and
communication activities concerning the concept of climate justice. So a fair transition, so, okay, we have climate change, we have to cope with climate change, we have to adapt,
etc., but we should do it also in a fair way. Okay, respecting indigenous people who polluted more, should pay more, and so on, okay. And in these efforts, in these activities, we are also preparing two MOOCs, okay.
Two MOOCs with a target of citizens, so we want to use these MOOCs to try to improve the special climate change and climate justice literacy of citizens in general. In this case, at least the first version of this MOOC that we hope that it will be available around the end of
2022, will focus to Italian citizens, Italian Association, Italian students who want to learn more about these these topics. And yes, we are preparing two MOOCs, one more theoretical
related to climate change and adaptation, and the other focused on just science for climate justice, so more practical, okay. And it's gone, so this is the structure of the MOOC, okay. So, of course, we have, this is based all on
open-source or also for the preparation of the MOOC and the instruments, the tools that we present are all open-source or freeware. I have a slide about it in one of the last slides, and this is the Moodle platform, okay, so also is the Moodle platform is used by Padua University,
okay, where the center is located. And so we have a forum to interact between participant and with participant, okay, and we have different models. So we have
well, five more, two models, more or less. We have the, I focus on the model concerning the tools that we want to teach. The first one is data collection with HANA and ODK collect. The second one are the, is the exploration of Geo platform, mainly
European platform. The model three will be about the the use of GeoNode. We have a GeoNode, another activity is the preparation for GeoNode concerning climate change, climate justice, and this will be like a sort of tutorial to use the GeoNode, but also to introduce and to create a map with
citizen data, with their own, with the students data. Then we have a model four with prepare your your map using basically UMAP and Google Earth Pro. And then the last model, model five, will be focused on the story maps. So the story maps tool of GeoNode and the story maps of Night Lab, that is another open source
project, okay. Well, the structure of each model, we have a graphical abstract, is the basis, is the challenge-based and the learning by doing approach. So there will be a practical case study that the student, the group of
citizens should be, should should prepare, will prepare some some kind of project and then different chapters with PDF and short videos.
Maximum six, ten minutes video, because the attention usually fall down after ten minutes, fifteen minutes, okay. And then supplementary info and deliverables by students. This is an example of the PDF and okay, and the
example of the video. And these are the software that we are using. So for the production of the models, the OpenShot, OBS, OpenOffice, JIMP and Moodle platform to share the MOOCs. And then we have all the
all the other tools that we are, you want to explain like QGIS, ODK on and Google maps, UMAP, etc. Thank you. And if you want to learn more, there is the paper, of course is a didactic, is an academic track.
So there is also the paper. Thanks a lot.