Innovation in GI teaching and learning: a case-based approach

giCASES – Creating a University-Enterprise Alliance for a Spatially Enabled Society – is a Knowledge Alliance co-funded within the EC ERASMUS+ Programme. General objectives: a) To enable and strengthen innovation in GI education and industry; b) To facilitate the collaborative creation, management and sharing of knowledge. These objectives are addressed by developing new, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning within the Geographic Information (GI) sector, and facilitating the exchange, flow and co-creation of knowledge. In particular, giCASES aims to: a) Improve the quality and relevance of GI courses provided by the University members of the consortium; b) Facilitate the growth of new knowledge-sharing processes and tools between enterprises and universities; c) Improve the management of knowledge by the partners. The overall approach to address these objectives is to develop new learning material and processes based on case-based learning. In the approach taken in the project, enterprises and academia collaborate both when creating learning material based on real cases and also during and after the courses (through a collaborative platform).