USING FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE TO TEACH UNIVERSITY GIS COURSES ONLINE: LESSONS LEARNED DURING A PANDEMIC

Abstract. During the remote learning necessitated by COVID-19 pandemic, university GIS students did not always have home access to kinds of software and hardware that they would ordinarily get in their on-campus lab facilities. In this situation, free cross-platform nature FOSS opened door for some continue education uninterrupted. article, I describe how one allowed choose such as QGIS, PostGIS, GeoDa alternatives proprietary upper-division coursework. These were used teach techniques point pattern analysis, visibility hydrological modeling, proximity surfaces, LISA process open data access, summation. share specific tools, commands, plugins apply these assignments. discuss approaches can form a lasting part curriculum beyond position skills prepare job market.