How many students can help solve urgent problems within weeks of writing their first lines of code? In Taichi Furuhashi’s “Introduction to Spatial Information Systems I” at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan, students collaborate with organizations like the American Red Cross, the World Bank, the United Nations and the Japan International Cooperation Agency. For Furuhashi, President of CrisisMappers Japan, student engagement and active learning are...
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