Civic engagement is a core competency in public education. This talk demonstrates how OSM is used in Geography classes to teach the production and consumption of maps as an act of spatial citizenship.
Speaker
Melinda Alexander
Professor of Geography at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia.
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