Advancing Geo-technology Education: Providing GIS/DPS/ Remote Sensing /Computer Cartography Skills for the Workforce of the Twenty-First Century

William A. Dando DUE 9553694印第安纳州立大学1995财年$ 300,000 Terre Haute， IN 47809-0001先进技术教育职称：先进地球技术教育；印第安纳州立大学地理与地质系正在向25名社区大学教师介绍地理信息系统（GIS）的原理，这是20世纪90年代增长最快的就业领域之一。旨在促进地理信息系统的采用，使其成为两年制大学中众多以技术为导向的教学项目的组成部分，该示范项目正在迈出必要的第一步，为中西部的劳动力提供使用这一快速发展的技术的技术人员。参加者由来自同一机构的两至三名社区大学讲师组成小组，在两个为期三周的暑期学院和一个继续教育课程中学习地理信息系统的基本原理。他们正在学习这项技术今天在商业、政府和工业中的许多应用方式。这个项目的直接目的是让参与者充分熟悉地理信息系统原理和软件知识及其效用，以便他们能够带着足够的专业知识回到校园，开始将这项技术纳入现有的课程。长期目标设想参与者在他们的机构建立离散的地理信息系统教育计划。为了确保项目目标的实现，来自拥有成功GIS项目的两年制学院的顾问将为组织所有教学项目提供建议，并成为暑期学院教学团队的一部分。一位两年的学院教员担任项目评估员。伊利诺斯州东伊利诺斯州社区学院的伊利诺斯州罗宾逊校区和印第安纳州职业技术学院的特雷霍特校区之间的密切合作得到了保证，这两个机构的教师团队将在夏季学院接受地理信息系统的指导，并向他们提供硬件和软件，以帮助他们在现有课程中使用地理信息系统。开发地理信息系统入门课程并将地理信息系统纳入这两个机构的现有课程是该项目的主要目标。

William A. Dando DUE 9553694 Indiana State University FY1995 $ 300,000 Terre Haute, IN 47809-0001 Advanced Technological Education Title: Advancing Geo-technology Education: Providing GIS Remote Skills for the Workforce of the Twenty-First Century The Department of Geography and Geology of Indiana State University, is introducing twenty-five community college instructors to the principles of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), one of the fastest growing employment fields in the 19990s. Designed to promote the adoption of GIS as an integral part of numerous technically-oriented instructional programs in two-year colleges, this model program is taking the needed first step in supplying the workforce in the Midwest with technicians educated in the use of this rapidly growing technology. Working in teams of two or three community college instructors from the same institution, participants are acquiring the basic principles of GIS in two 3-week summer institutes and in one continuing education class. They are learning of the many ways in which this technology is used today in business, government, and industry. The immediate aim of this project is to give participants sufficient familiarity with GIS principles and knowledge of software and its utility so that they can return to their campuses with enough expertise to begin to incorporate this technology into existing courses. The long-term aim envisions participants establishing discrete GIS- education programs at their institutions. To ensure realization of project goals, consultants from two-year colleges with successful GIS programs are advising in organizing all instructional programs and are part of the summer institutes' teaching teams. A two-year college faculty member is serving as project evaluator. Close cooperation of the Robinson, Illinois campus of Illinois Eastern Illinois Co mmunity Colleges and the Terre Haute campus of Indiana Vocational Technical Institute is assured with the inclusion of faculty teams from those two institutions receiving GIS instruction in the summer institutes and by providing them with hardware and software to help facilitate employment of GIS into their existing courses. Development of introductory courses in GIS and integration of GIS into existing courses at these two institutions is a primary aim of the project.