Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement (SPACE)

社会科学-其他（89）空间是一个为期三年的项目，旨在实现社会科学本科教育的系统性变革，并延伸到环境科学。我们的方法是基于空间思维和相关技术（地理信息系统，空间分析工具）的价值，作为社会科学学科之间更大整合的基础，为学生提供更大的动力，更大的社会问题相关性，更大的技术融入本科教学，为毕业生提供更大的就业前景。该计划以一系列专业发展研讨会为中心，并有广泛的后续活动；并提供了旨在利用这些研讨会的其他项目，以实现传统上代表性不足的群体的高参与率，并弥合社会科学研究与教学之间的差距。它由加州大学圣巴巴拉分校领导的一个联盟管理，包括俄亥俄州立大学（PI, Mei-Po Kwan）和大学地理信息科学联盟（PI, Arthur Getis），该联盟由60多个机构组成，对SPACE所依据的原则有着坚定的承诺。该项目是在空间集成社会科学研究中心（csss）的成功经验基础上建立的，csss是1999年由美国国家科学基金会社会科学研究基础设施支持计划资助的项目。ciss为研究生和年轻教师举办研讨会，向他们介绍GIS和空间分析作为研究工具。空间是一项重要的新举措，旨在教授教师，并将重点从研究转移到本科学习。SPACE的重点是为本科教师提供GIS和空间分析的基本技能，以及一些最新的技术、软件和学习资源。空间还在主要会议上组织会议，向教员提供在课堂上使用空间技术的基本介绍，与国家讲习班的参加者保持接触，并接触到比讲习班更广泛的听众。该项目正在开发一套广泛的网络资源，以促进本科教师之间材料和评估工具的共享。

Social Science-Other (89) SPACE is a three-year program to achieve systemic change within undergraduate education in the social sciences, with extension to the environmental sciences. Our approach is based on the value of spatial thinking, and associated technologies (geographic information systems, tools for spatial analysis), as the basis for greater integration among the social science disciplines, greater motivation for students, greater relevance to societal problems, greater integration of technology into undergraduate instruction, and greater employment prospects for graduates.The program is centered on a series of professional development workshops, with extensive follow-on activities; and features additional programs designed to leverage these workshops, to achieve high rates of participation among traditionally under-represented groups, and to bridge the gap between research and teaching in the social sciences. It is managed by a consortium led by the University of California, Santa Barbara, and includes The Ohio State University (PI, Mei-Po Kwan) and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (PI, Arthur Getis), a consortium of over 60 institutions with strong commitments to the principles on which SPACE is based.The program is building on the successful experience of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS), a project funded by NSF since 1999 under its program of support for research infrastructure in the social sciences. CSISS organizes workshops for graduate students and young faculty, to introduce them to GIS and spatial analysis as research tools. SPACE is a major new initiative to teach the teachers, and move the focus from research to undergraduate learning. SPACE focuses on providing undergraduate instructors with basic skills in GIS and spatial analysis and some of the latest techniques, software, and learning resources. SPACE is also organizing sessions at major conferences to provide instructors with basic introductions to using spatial technologies in the classroom, to maintain engagement with participants in the national workshops, and to reach wider audiences than the workshops. The project is in the process of developing an extensive set of Web resources to facilitate the sharing of materials and assessment instruments among undergraduate instructors.