Increasing Student and Faculty Participation in GIS Education: Envisioning Spatial Data

跨学科(99)这个项目提高了理查德·斯托克顿学院在一系列学科中应用地理信息系统(GIS)的意识、兴趣和能力。它满足了对能够将地理信息系统技术应用于不同领域的大学毕业生日益增长的需求。为了让更多的学生参与到地理信息系统教育中来，我们将：1)提高教师和学生对地理信息系统的一般能力和特定学科的能力以及他们所在领域的机会的认识；2)培训教师在他们自己的教学中使用地理信息系统；以及3)教授学生理解地理信息系统及其在特定领域的应用所需的基本地理和空间概念。我们正在通过一个示范工作坊系列向大学社区教育地理信息系统，向学院的学生和教职员工介绍空间数据和信息有助于理解世界和不同学科的方式。我们正在通过教员研讨会来培训教员，其中包括对地理信息系统的基本介绍，然后是教员学科的个人项目。受过地理信息系统培训的学生导师协助教员完成项目。来自许多学科的学生在开始学习地理信息系统之前，需要对基本的空间和地理概念进行介绍。我们正在根据国家地理信息与分析中心(NCGIA)的指导方针，在斯托克顿的通识课程中开发一项以实验室为基础的、自定进度的门户课程，以适应其他机构和斯托克顿的课程。评估和传播是该项目每个阶段的关键，突出表现在外部顾问的几次访问和作为远程学习课程的示范讲习班的发展。该项目通过吸引非传统学生来解决多样性问题。它将教师教育列为重点学科领域之一。与斯托克顿地理信息系统中心的密切联系使学生能够参与研究和独立项目，并获得地理信息系统高级认证。

Interdisciplinary (99) This project increases awareness of, interest in and competence at applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a range of disciplines at Richard Stockton College. It addresses a growing need for college graduates who can apply GIS technology to diverse fields. To bring more students to GIS education, we are: 1) increasing awareness among faculty and students of the general and discipline-specific capabilities of GIS and the opportunities in their fields, 2) training faculty to use GIS in their own teaching and 3) teaching students basic geographic and spatial concepts needed to understand GIS and its applications in their particular fields. We are educating the college community about GIS via a demonstration-workshop series to introduce students and faculty at the College to the ways in which spatial data and information contribute to understanding the world and to diverse academic disciplines. We are training faculty via faculty workshops which include a basic introduction to GIS, followed by an individual project in the faculty member's discipline. GIS-trained student mentors assist faculty with projects. Students from many disciplines need an introduction to basic spatial and geographic concepts before beginning GIS. We are developing a laboratory-based, self-paced gateway course in Stockton's General Studies program adapting courses from other institutions and from Stockton, following guidelines of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). Evaluation and dissemination are key at each stage of the project, highlighted by several visits by outside consultants and by development of the demonstration- workshops as a distance-learning course. This project addresses diversity issues by appealing to non-traditional students. It includes teacher education as one of the key disciplinary areas. Close ties to Stockton's GIS center allows students to become involved in research and independent projects and to pursue advanced certification in GIS.