TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing a curriculum in geographic information systems
T2 - The national center for geographic information and analysis core curriculum project
AU - Kemp, Karen K.
AU - Goodchild, Michael F.
N1 - Funding Information:
The NCGIA is a federally-funded research consortium formed in response to a call for proposals from the US National Science Foundation (Abler, 1987). Following a lengthy review process, the University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Maine and State University of New York at Buffalo were granted a 5-year mandate in August 1988 to conduct research and educational initiatives directed at decreasing or removing impediments to the adoption of GIS technology. The research agenda is wide-ranging and is described in detail in NCGIA (1989). The educational initiatives are designed to improve access to GIS education and to
PY - 1991/1
Y1 - 1991/1
N2 - We describe a major effort by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) to develop teaching materials in support of courses in Geographie Information Systems (GIS). The project is motivated by the current high level of demand for GIS Professionals and by the need to distinguish between Software training on the one hand, and education in the intellectual and conceptual basis of GIS on the other. The teaching materials were assembled from contributions by many GIS educators and tested in a number of institutions world-wide. The activities described in this article were followed by an evaluation Programme during 1989-90 and culminated in the release of a revised version in the summer of 1990.
AB - We describe a major effort by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) to develop teaching materials in support of courses in Geographie Information Systems (GIS). The project is motivated by the current high level of demand for GIS Professionals and by the need to distinguish between Software training on the one hand, and education in the intellectual and conceptual basis of GIS on the other. The teaching materials were assembled from contributions by many GIS educators and tested in a number of institutions world-wide. The activities described in this article were followed by an evaluation Programme during 1989-90 and culminated in the release of a revised version in the summer of 1990.
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U2 - 10.1080/03098269108709142
DO - 10.1080/03098269108709142
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0026282409
SN - 0309-8265
VL - 15
SP - 123
EP - 134
JO - Journal of Geography in Higher Education
JF - Journal of Geography in Higher Education
IS - 2
ER -