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.

该提案将建立一个本科地理信息系统（GIS）教学计算机实验室，使地理和规划部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，本科研究机会，并开发新的和创新的K-12课程和教师培训工具。所要求的仪器将用于为小学和中学教育专业编制新的计算机绘图课程，并举办一个夏季讲习班，为教师提供类似的培训;提高该部为其专业和其他非教育专业提供的计算机绘图和地理信息系统课程的效率和数量;增加本科生从事社会和环境问题研究项目的机会;并在该署内发展一门新课程，介绍如何应用地理信息系统方法分析环境和保育问题。该项目将与纽约州立大学布法罗的国家地理信息和分析中心（NCGIA）协调，并通过纽约地理联盟与在职教师协调。项目成果将通过标准学术渠道以及在项目实施期间由布法罗纽约州立大学NCGIA、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校NCGLA和教育部在布法罗举办的K-12教育GIS全国会议上进行传播。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会上介绍讨论结果。