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

William A.丹多 DUE 9553694印第安纳州州立大学 1995财政年度300，000美元印第安纳州特雷霍特47809-0001 高级技术教育 标题：推进地理技术教育：为21世纪的劳动力提供GIS远程技能 印第安纳州州立大学地理和地质系正在向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。 旨在促进采用GIS作为一个不可分割的一部分，众多的技术为导向的教学计划，在两年制大学，这个模型程序是在提供劳动力在中西部与技术人员在使用这个快速增长的技术教育所需的第一步。 参与者在同一机构的两个或三个社区大学教师组成的团队中工作，在两个为期三周的暑期学院和一个继续教育班中获得GIS的基本原理。 他们正在学习这项技术在当今商业、政府和工业中的许多应用方式。 这个项目的直接目的是使参加者充分熟悉地理信息系统的原则和软件及其效用的知识，以便他们能够带着足够的专门知识回到校园，开始将这种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GIS教育计划。为了确保项目目标的实现，来自两年制大学的顾问与成功的地理信息系统方案是建议在组织所有的教学计划，是暑期学院的教学团队的一部分。 一名两年制大学教员担任项目评估员。 密切合作的罗宾逊，伊利诺伊州校园的伊利诺伊州东部社区学院和特雷霍特校园的印第安纳州职业技术学院是保证与包括教师团队从这两个机构接受GIS指令在暑期学院，并为他们提供硬件和软件，以帮助促进就业的GIS到他们现有的课程。 该项目的一个主要目标是编制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。

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.