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计划，以实现社会科学本科教育的系统性变化，并扩展到环境科学。我们的方法基于空间思维的价值和相关技术（地理信息系统，空间分析工具），作为社会科学学科之间更大整合的基础，学生的更大动力，与社会问题的更大相关性，技术更大程度地融入本科教学，该计划以一系列专业发展讲习班为中心，并开展广泛的后续活动;并设有额外的计划，旨在利用这些讲习班，以实现传统上代表性不足的群体的参与率高，并弥合社会科学研究和教学之间的差距。它由加州大学圣巴巴拉分校牵头的一个财团管理，其中包括俄亥俄州州立大学（首席研究员关美宝）及地理资讯科学大学联盟（PI，亚瑟盖蒂斯），一个由60多个机构组成的联盟，这些机构对空间研究所所依据的原则有着坚定的承诺。该计划是在空间综合社会科学中心（CSISS），这是NSF自1999年以来根据其支持社会科学研究基础设施计划资助的一个项目。空间信息系统研究中心为研究生和青年教师举办讲习班，向他们介绍地理信息系统和空间分析作为研究工具。空间是一个重大的新举措，教教师，并将重点从研究转向本科学习。空间的重点是提供本科教师在GIS和空间分析的基本技能和一些最新的技术，软件和学习资源。空间研究所还在主要会议上组织会议，向教员介绍在课堂上使用空间技术的基本情况，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受众。该项目正在开发一套广泛的网络资源，以促进本科生教师之间分享材料和评估工具。

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.