A GIS Core Curriculum for the 2-Year College

题目：两年制大学地理信息系统核心课程地理信息系统（GIS）的行业和公共部门用户正在创造越来越多的地理信息系统技术人员职位。社区大学正在尝试创建GIS项目来满足这一需求。这个项目解决了在一些两年制学院进行的地理信息系统课程设计和课程建设活动中对辅助资源的需求。美国国家地理信息与分析中心（NCGIA）将与一些社区学院和目前的美国国家科学基金会先进技术教育项目合作，开发一套GIS技术项目核心课程（CCTP）。这个基于万维网的资源将支持开发特定学科的地理信息系统材料，提供地理信息系统理论和实践的基本要素，因为它们与在社区学院提供地理信息系统技术人员教育的努力有关。CCTP将以NCGIA为大学水平GIS课程开发而成功开发的GIS核心课程为模板，并将借鉴当前更新和创建GIS核心课程万维网版本的经验。NCGIA和一个咨询委员会，包括来自社区大学的GIS专家、GIS行业和GIS用户社区，将从社区大学中挑选GIS教育者参加为期一周的工作会议，为CCTP创建一个框架。该框架将概述CCTP的基本材料单元和格式。在本课程之后，每个单元将由一个在该单元主题方面具有专业知识的人撰写。这套完整的单元将被汇编成WWW资源，并将在一些社区学院的地理信息系统课程开发和地理信息系统教学活动中进行测试。在对测试CCTP的站点进行详细评估之后，将对其进行编辑，并通过万维网和CD-ROM广泛提供。

Title: A GIS Core Curriculum for the 2-Year College An increasing number of Geographic Information System (GIS) technician positions are being created by industry and public sector users of GIS. Community Colleges are attempting to create GIS programs that will meet this demand. This project addresses the need for a supporting resource for the GIS curriculum design and course building activities taking place in a number of the two-year colleges. The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) in collaboration with a number of community colleges and current NSF Advanced Technological Education Projects will develop a GIS Core Curriculum for Technical Programs (CCTP). This World Wide Web-based resource will support efforts to develop discipline-specific GIS materials by providing access to the fundamental elements of GIS theory and practice as they relate to efforts to provide GIS technician education in the community colleges. The CCTP will be patterned after the successful NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIS developed for university level GIS curriculum development and will also draw from the experience of the current effort to update and create a World Wide Web (WWW) version of the Core Curriculum in GIS. NCGIA and an Advisory Council, including GIS specialists from community colleges, the GIS industry, and the GIS user community, will select GIS educators from the community colleges to participate in a week-long Work Session to create a framework for the CCTP. The framework will outline the essential units of material and a format for the CCTP. Following this session, each unit will be written by an individual with expertise in the unit topic. The completed set of units will be compiled as a WWW resource and will be tested in a number of community college GIS curriculum development and GIS instructional activities. Following a detailed evaluation from the sites testing the CCTP, it will be edited and made widely available via the WWW and CD-ROM.