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The huge development of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) promotes a set of changes in the way of teaching all disciplines (geography, journalism, education, history, art history, biology, geology, environmental sciences, etc.), of designing and implementing activities and resources oriented to the improvement of the learning process and event to conceiving a new specialized didactics of each area in the beginning of the twenty-first century. In this chapter, we will face the definition of geospatial competences and their relevance in the career of any geographer first of all, but too in other disciplines, where the geographical information is important, for example, communication, with the data journalism and the so-called geo-journalism, geo-marketing, and outdoor education, among others. We will also analyze the role of ICT in the scenario of the geography, with an interdisciplinary perspective, and how different methodologies such as cooperative learning, problem-based learning, and serious games could present a vital position in the framework of teaching geospatial competences. Moreover, nowadays, there are different types of e-learning courses using different online software such as Moodle, Open Course Ware (OCW), or Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). Different examples and cases in this line, particularly about geography, journalism, and outdoor education, are shown in this chapter.
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Delgado-Peña, J.J., Subires-Mancera, M.P. (2019). Teaching Geospatial Competences by Digital Activities and E-Learning. Experiences in Geography, Journalism, and Outdoor Education. In: de Miguel González, R., Donert, K., Koutsopoulos, K. (eds) Geospatial Technologies in Geography Education. Key Challenges in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17783-6_8
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