Fostering Student Success in Geospatial Technology

该项目的重点是地理信息科学（GISc）的五个核心课程的开发，实施和评估，这是建立一个全面的GISc计划在曼哈顿社区学院的纽约市立自治市的未来发展和实施的基础。 PI已经从附近的CUNY Hunter College获得了适当的专家援助，并与国家地理空间技术中心（NGTC）、其他两年制和四年制机构、当地私营企业以及联邦、州和市机构的代表合作，开发、调整和实施GISc中的示范教材和关键教学策略。短期活动旨在编制、改编和传播新的学习材料和教学战略，以反映地理空间技术的进步，该项目的双重目的是为学生在各种行业的入门级就业做好准备，并促进学生转入地理信息科学（GISc）的当地学士学位课程该项目还试图提高学生的批判性思维和解决问题的技能，并提高他们的地理空间知识。 这是通过创新使用新兴技术，案例研究，实践教学和课堂研究来实现的。这些教学方法建立在NGTC社区学院网络已经进行的研究的基础上，并以新的方式进行扩展。该项目正在开发的地理信息系统课程大大加强了大城市地区学生的学习，并提供了一批新的训练有素的技术人员，他们能够加入并加强当地和区域的劳动力队伍。 同样，项目PI正在开发的教学方法和战略有可能成为适合在其他城市地区和服务于传统上在STEM学科中代表性不足的群体的机构复制的国家模式。

This project is focusing on the development, implementation, and assessment of five core courses in Geographic Information Science (GISc), which are building the foundation for the future development and implementation of a full-scale GISc program at the CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College. The PIs have engaged appropriate expert assistance from nearby CUNY Hunter College, and also are working with representatives from the National Center for Geospatial Technology (NGTC), other two-year and four-year institutions, local private industries, and federal, state, and city agencies to develop, adapt, and implement exemplary educational materials and key pedagogical strategies in GISc. The short-term activities are aimed at creating, adapting, and disseminating new learning materials and teaching strategies to reflect advances in geospatial technology, and the project is serving the dual purpose of preparing students for entry level employment in a variety of industries and facilitating student transfer to local baccalaureate degree programs in Geographical Information Science (GISc).The project is also attempting to increase critical thinking and problem solving skills among students in addition to improving their geospatial literacy. This is being done through the innovative use of emerging technologies, cases studies, and hands-on instruction and in-class research. These instructional methods build upon and extend in new ways research already being undertaken by the NGTC's network of community colleges. The GISc courses that are being developed by the project are significantly enhancing student learning in a large urban area and are providing a new pool of highly trained technicians able to join and enhance the local and regional workforce. Likewise, the instructional methods and strategies being developed by the project PIs have the potential to become a national model suitable for replication in other urban areas and at institutions serving groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the STEM disciplines.