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

增加学生和教师对 GIS 教育的参与：设想空间数据

• 批准号: 0088594
• 负责人: William Cromartie
• 金额: $ 16.68万
• 依托单位: Stockton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-01-01 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0088594&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; Student; Faculty; Participation; GIS

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.

跨学科（99）这个项目增加了认识，兴趣和能力，在应用地理信息系统（GIS）在理查德斯托克顿学院的一系列学科。它满足了对能够将GIS技术应用于不同领域的大学毕业生日益增长的需求。为了使更多的学生到GIS教育，我们是：1）提高教师和学生的GIS的一般和学科的具体能力，并在各自领域的机会的认识，2）培训教师在自己的教学中使用GIS和3）教学生基本的地理和空间概念需要了解GIS及其在其特定领域的应用。我们正在通过一系列演示研讨会教育大学社区GIS，向学院的学生和教师介绍空间数据和信息有助于理解世界和不同学科的方式。我们通过教师研讨会培训教师，其中包括GIS的基本介绍，然后是教师学科的个人项目。GIS培训的学生导师协助教师的项目。来自许多学科的学生在开始GIS之前需要介绍基本的空间和地理概念。我们正在开发一个以实验室为基础的，自定进度的网关课程，在斯托克顿的一般研究计划适应课程从其他机构和斯托克顿，以下国家中心的指导方针地理信息和分析（NCGIA）。评价和传播是项目每个阶段的关键，外部顾问的几次访问和示范讲习班作为远程学习课程的发展突出了这一点。该项目通过吸引非传统学生来解决多样性问题。它包括教师教育作为一个关键的学科领域。与斯托克顿GIS中心的密切联系使学生能够参与研究和独立项目，并获得GIS的高级认证。