A GIS Core Curriculum for the 2-Year College

标题：两年制大专地理信息系统核心课程 地理信息系统的工业和公共部门用户正在设立越来越多的地理信息系统技术员职位。社区学院正试图创建GIS程序，将满足这一需求。该项目解决了GIS课程设计和课程建设活动正在一些两年制学院的支持资源的需要。国家地理信息与分析中心（NCGIA）与一些社区学院和当前的NSF高级技术教育项目合作，将开发一个技术项目的GIS核心课程（CCTP）。这一基于万维网的资源将通过提供GIS理论和实践的基本要素来支持开发特定学科GIS材料的努力，因为它们与在社区学院提供GIS技术人员教育的努力有关。CCTP将仿照成功的NCGIA核心课程的GIS开发大学一级的GIS课程开发，也将借鉴目前的努力，更新和创建一个万维网（WWW）版本的GIS核心课程的经验。 NCGIA和一个咨询理事会，包括来自社区学院、GIS行业和GIS用户社区的GIS专家，将从社区学院挑选GIS教育工作者参加为期一周的工作会议，为CCTP创建一个框架。该框架将概述材料的基本单位和CCTP的格式。在本课程之后，每个单元将由一位具有该单元主题专业知识的个人撰写。完成的一套单位将被编译为一个万维网资源，并将在一些社区学院的GIS课程开发和GIS教学活动进行测试。在对该方案进行测试的各地点进行详细评价之后，将对该方案进行编辑，并通过万维网和光盘广泛提供。

Title: A GIS Core Curriculum for the 2-Year College An increasing number of Geographic Information System (GIS) technician positions are being created by industry and public sector users of GIS. Community Colleges are attempting to create GIS programs that will meet this demand. This project addresses the need for a supporting resource for the GIS curriculum design and course building activities taking place in a number of the two-year colleges. The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) in collaboration with a number of community colleges and current NSF Advanced Technological Education Projects will develop a GIS Core Curriculum for Technical Programs (CCTP). This World Wide Web-based resource will support efforts to develop discipline-specific GIS materials by providing access to the fundamental elements of GIS theory and practice as they relate to efforts to provide GIS technician education in the community colleges. The CCTP will be patterned after the successful NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIS developed for university level GIS curriculum development and will also draw from the experience of the current effort to update and create a World Wide Web (WWW) version of the Core Curriculum in GIS. NCGIA and an Advisory Council, including GIS specialists from community colleges, the GIS industry, and the GIS user community, will select GIS educators from the community colleges to participate in a week-long Work Session to create a framework for the CCTP. The framework will outline the essential units of material and a format for the CCTP. Following this session, each unit will be written by an individual with expertise in the unit topic. The completed set of units will be compiled as a WWW resource and will be tested in a number of community college GIS curriculum development and GIS instructional activities. Following a detailed evaluation from the sites testing the CCTP, it will be edited and made widely available via the WWW and CD-ROM.