Geospatial Curriculum Resources

Collection of resources & information about geospatial curriculum.

• GI S&T Body of Knowledge
  The Model Curricula is a vision of how higher education should prepare students for success in the variety of professions that rely upon geospatial technologies. Central to that vision is a comprehensive Body of Knowledge that specifies what aspiring geospatial professionals need to know and be able to do. Since 1998, scholars from many of the 70 research universities that UCGIS represents have contributed to the Geographic Information Science and Technology (GI S&T) Body of Knowledge. The Body of Knowledge will include ten knowledge areas, dozens of units, and hundreds of topics, each defined as a formal educational objective. Anticipated uses of the GI S&T Body of Knowledge include: [+]
• Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support System in the K-12 Curriculum, published by the National Research Council of the National Academies
  Spatial thinking is a cognitive skill that can be used in everyday life, the workplace, and science to structure problems, find answers, and express solutions using the properties of space. It can be learned and taught formally to students using ...[+]
• NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIScience
  Given the continuing demand for copies of the original 1990 NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIS, the NCGIA has decided that a major revision is warranted. While we initially felt that widespread diffusion of these lecture materials would eventually make our document redundant, it is apparent that the continued rapid development of the technology and the awakening of the concept of geographic information science continues to make such materials of value. [+]
• NCGIA GIS Core Curriculum for Technical Programs - Instructor Guide
  The Core Curriculum for Technical Programs concentrates on providing course content assistance for instructors. The CCTP is intended to support a full range of courses that would be taught at a 2-yr. college. The materials are textbook and course independent, providing a generic task-oriented approach. While the NCGIA core curriculum in GIS (GISCC) focuses on Geographic Information Science, the CCTP focuses on information that instructors need to present to students so they can perform the technical activities associated with geographic information systems.[+]
• Kidz Online Geospatial Generalist Certificate of Completion Program
  By working directly with the global industry to design the curriculum, we have ensured delivery of valuable, industry-appropriate training products; thus establishing a connection between development of the future geospatial workforce and international prospective employers. [+]