Developing an Integrated Undergraduate GIScience Curriculum for Five University of Maine System Campuses

这个项目的核心目的是改编国家地理信息与分析委员会（NCGIA,1997）开发的核心课程的关键要素，并将这些要素与缅因大学系统中一些校区已经使用的材料相结合。这是一个合作项目，旨在使作为该系统一部分的五所大学受益：南缅因大学、肯特堡缅因大学、马基亚斯缅因大学、奥古斯塔缅因大学和法明顿缅因大学。这个合作项目更广泛的目的是在缅因州的5个合作校区加强gisscience教育。每个校区都配备了一个专门的实验室，以支持现代地理信息科学（GIScience）课程的发展，包括地理信息系统和全球定位系统技术以及相关的教育材料。我们正在为这五所大学的本科生开发和实施一系列的两门gisscience课程。这些项目的目的是教育学生达到一个共同的成就标准，尽管有一些地方的变化是为了满足5所参与学校的不同需求。新课程满足了各个领域对高质量gisscience教育日益增长的需求。我们正在设计两门课程的顺序，通过定制练习和数据集来促进主动学习，以适应每个校区不同的地理位置和项目优势。我们的项目也在提高和发展教师的技能，并将先进的技术融入各个学科。我们的计划是通过我们的教学、为我们的教员同事举办的现场研讨会、网络出版物和在专业会议上的演讲来传播我们的工作。项目评价得到教员讲习班现场同行意见的协助，并由GIScience学者和专业人员组成的三人咨询小组进行定期审查。

Geography (88)The core purpose of this project is to adapt key elements of the core curriculum developed by the National Council for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA,1997), combining these with materials already used on some campuses in the University of Maine system. This is a collaborative project designed to benefit five universities that are part of this system: The University of Southern Maine,The University of Maine, Fort Kent,The University of Maine, Machias,The University of Maine, Augusta, andThe University of Maine, Farmington. The broader purpose of this collaborative project is to enhance GIScience education throughout the state of Maine on the 5 collaborating campuses. On each campus a dedicated laboratory is being equipped to support the development of a modern geographical information science (GIScience) curriculum, comprised of GIS and GPS technology and related educational materials. We are developing and implementing a sequence of two GIScience courses for undergraduate students in each of the five universities. These are being designed to educate students to a common standard of achievement, although there are local variations designed to meet the varied needs of the 5 participating campuses. The new curriculum meets a growing need for high-quality GIScience education in a variety of fields. We are designing the two-course sequences to foster active learning by customizing exercises and data sets to the diverse geographic locations and programmatic strengths of each campus. Our project is also enhancing and developing the skills of the faculty, and integrating advanced technology into a variety of disciplines. Our plan is to disseminate our work through our teaching, on-site workshops for our faculty colleagues, internet publication, and presentation at professional meetings. Project evaluation is being assisted by on-site peer input during faculty workshops, and periodic review by a three member advisory panel of GIScience scholars and professionals.