A collaborative GIS programming course using GitHub Classroom

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A collaborative GIS programming course using GitHub Classroom

Study Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tgis.12810
Citation: @doi:10.1111/tgis.12810

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• teaching
• GitHub classroom
• GIS

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• ecology and/or evolution;
• biostatistics;
• informatics and computational research;
• [ x ] open science and reproducibility;
• [ x ] teaching

Summary

• Most GIS programming courses don't incorporate GitHub, this paper provides framework for a course that combines QGIS software and GitHub. They use GitHub Classroom.
• GitHub classroom lets instructor monitor group projects and give feedback. It's a new-ish github service.
• Author suggests that github can be used just like a course management system (e.g., Canvas). Bonus is that students get course content + they learn about github along the way.

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