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A parent project, called PlanYourPlace (PYP), funded by GEOIDE and the Neptis Foundation, aims to support planning practice by engaging communities, and will do so by creating a web-based, interactive geospatial tool. An education component is planned as part of this. The following paper strives to identify the best way to deliver this education component, drawing from literature in the fields of online education, both formal and informal, and environmental and planning education. PYP seeks to build an online, interactive geospatial tool to support community planning, including planning analysis, design, and process (development of procedures to achieve plans) (HUNTER 2011). It aims to engage the public as local planning participants, government administrators, and domain experts, and strives to facilitate collaborative, participative planning. The development of visualization tools, sketching functionality, and extended online participatory GIS capabilities that include discussion forums and ranking tools for the assessment of proposed plans are being developed to support these goals. Ultimately, the tool aims to facilitate citizen participation in planning. The education component is designed primarily to serve the public users of the PYP tool, to facilitate their participation in planning. In support of this, there are four learning objectives based on Bloom’s (1954) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. They represent progressively increasing levels of questioning and understanding. Public users should be able to: (i) discuss neighbourhood planning and relevant factors, (ii) formulate informed opinions about plans and relevant contributing factors, (iii) prioritize competing influences for inclusion in plans, and (iv) collaboratively create well-considered plans. In order to meet these four objectives, the education component must be sufficiently fun, rewarding, entertaining (VAN DEN BRINK et al. 2007: 3), and engaging (IVERSON 2008) to attract and hold the attention of users. This is central to the delivery of the education. The education must also offer sufficient detail and breadth of information, or content, to meet the learning objectives. Further work on content and learning objectives is planned for future phases of the parent project. The review seeks to determine, by synthesizing literature from related fields: (i) what measures will attract the public user that the PYP tool targets, (ii) what will retain users, (iii) what will facilitate learning, and finally (iv) what will facilitate user retention of the material.
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