raum:planen - An Online Learning Environment for Spatial Planning

摘要

Spatial planning is difficult to teach at secondary school level. It is based on complex legal and administrative frameworks essentially affecting everyone. Spatial planning is a compulsory topic in Austrian schools curricula. At the same time, no Austrian learning materials for secondary schools include interactive environments accessing real world data. In pedagogy and educational science, there is a consensus that collaborative learning is one of the most important teaching and learning principles. The project raum:planen develops a GI-based learning environment for spatial planning to help students realize the importance of spatial planning in their personal environments, using real world data via webmapping services. It does so by developing the ability to read, interpret, annotate and discuss zoning maps. The project intends to confront pupils with learning media simulating participation in the planning process and offering additional legal information sources for that purpose.