An Undergraduate Instructional Laboratory for Computer Mapping and Geographic Information Systems

计算机测绘和地理信息系统本科教学实验室

• 批准号: 9850595
• 负责人: Raymond Waxmonsky
• 金额: $ 3.63万
• 依托单位: SUNY College at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-01 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9850595&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Instructional; Laboratory; Computer; Mapping

This proposal would establish an undergraduate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instructional computer lab that would enable the Department of Geography and Planning, in cooperation with two research/education centers at Buffalo State College, to expand its course offerings, undergraduate research opportunities and to develop new and innovative K-12 curricula and teacher training tools. The requested instrumentation would serve to develop new courses in computer mapping for elementary and secondary education majors and to develop a summer workshop to provide similar training to teachers; to increase the effectiveness and number of computer mapping and GIS courses offered by the Department for its majors and other non-education majors; to increase opportunities for undergraduate students to undertake supervised research projects on social and environmental problems; and to develop within the Department a new course in the application of GIS methodology in the analysis of environmental and conservation issues. The project will be coordinated with the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at SUNY Buffalo and in service teachers through the New York Geographic Alliance. Project results will be disseminated through standard academic outlets as well as in a national Conference on GIS in K-12 education organized by the NCGIA at SUNY Buffalo, the NCGLA at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Department, to be held in Buffalo during the course of the project. In addition the results will be presented in panel discussions on GIS in Undergraduate Education to be held at the 1998 and 1999 Annual Conferences of the Middle States Division of the American Association of Geographers.

这项提议将建立一个本科生地理信息系统教学计算机实验室，使地理和规划系能够与布法罗州立学院的两个研究/教育中心合作，扩大其课程设置、本科生研究机会，并开发新的创新的K-12课程和教师培训工具。所要求的仪器将用于为中小学教育专业的学生开发新的计算机制图课程，并举办暑期讲习班，为教师提供类似的培训；提高新闻部为其专业和其他非教育专业学生提供的计算机制图和地理信息系统课程的成效和数量；增加本科生进行有关社会和环境问题的有监督的研究项目的机会；并在新闻部内开发一门关于在环境和养护问题上应用地理信息系统方法的新课程。该项目将与纽约州立大学布法罗分校的国家地理信息和分析中心(NCGIA)以及纽约地理联盟的在职教师进行协调。项目成果将通过标准的学术渠道以及在项目期间在布法罗举行的全国K-12教育地理信息系统会议上传播，该会议由纽约州立大学布法罗分校的全国地理信息系统协会、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的全国地理信息系统协会和教育部组织。此外，将在美国地理学家协会中部各州分部1998年和1999年年会上举行的关于本科教育中地理信息系统的小组讨论中介绍研究结果。