Miscellaneous

Volunteer flood mapping for Queensland

The MAPS mapping volunteers have posted an interesting report on their work mapping the Queensland floods:… RCQ created a project that involved volunteers from GISCorps and MAPS. This project produced a number of documents which outlined possible scenarios, hardware and software requirements, etc. The GISCorp volunteers also focused on mapping the capacisty of RCQ EmergencyRead… Read more »

Which students succeed at online learning

Johnelle Bryson Welsh’s dissertation “Identifying Factors That Predict Student Success in a Community College Online Distance Learning Course” (2007) while researching US colleges, provides useful insights into students of e-learning courses generally. Demographic variables (such as age and gender) do not effect course results. The online students tend to older, married, worked full-time, and OriginalRead… Read more »

2010 Tied for Hottest Year on Record

According to NOAA, 2010 was one of the hottest years on record, in fact it tied for the hottest. Here are a few of the 2010 US Climate Highlights from the NOAA release of the data: In the contiguous United States, 2010 was the 14th consecutive year with an annual temperature above the long-term average.Read… Read more »

Which students succeed at online learning

Johnelle Bryson Welsh’s dissertation “IDENTIFYING FACTORS THAT PREDICT STUDENT SUCCESS IN ACOMMUNITY COLLEGE ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE” (2007) while researching US colleges, provides useful insights into students of e-learning courses generally. Demographic variables (such as age and gender) do not effect course results. The online students tend to older, married, worked full-time, and Original post