UCGIS Education Committee
Model Curricula Project
GI S&T Body of Knowledge
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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:
Resource for course and curriculum planning for academic and professional programs at four-year and two-year institutions.
Basis for comparison of educational programs by prospective students
Basis for professional certification (the “strawman” draft Body of Knowledge is already used by the GIS Certificate Institute to adjudicate applicants’ educational achievement point claims)
Basis for program accreditation
Basis for articulation agreements between and among two-year and four-year higher education institutions
Resource for human resources professionals seeking guidance in employee recruiting, selection, and continuing professional development.
Timetable for completion of Model Curricula products
Summer 2006: 1st edition of the GI S&T Body of Knowledge published
2007: Consulting services offered to educational institutions and other organizations planning educational and training programs based on the Body of Knowledge
2008: Edited multi-author volume delineating example pathways published
2010: 2nd edition of the GI S&T Body of Knowledge published
Contributors to the GI S&T Body of Knowledge
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EDITORS |
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| Michael Demers New Mexico State University |
Karen Kemp University of Redlands |
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David DiBiase, managing editor The Pennsylvania State University |
Brandon Plewe Brigham Young University |
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Ann Johnson ESRI |
Elizabeth A. Wentz Arizona State University |
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Ann Luck The Pennsylvania State University |
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ADVISORY BOARD |
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Original Task Force members |
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| Duane Marble | Aileen Buckley |
| Art Getis | Carolyn Merry |
| Harvey Miller | Donna Peuquet |
| Mike Phoenix | Mandayam Srinivas |
| Lyna Wiggins | Richard Wright |
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| Jochen Albrecht | Luc Anselin |
| Richard Aspinall | Todd Bacastow |
| Kate Beard-Tisdale | Cindy Brewer |
| Dan Brown | Babs Buttenfield |
| Jerry Davis | Catherine Dibble |
| Rob Edsall | Mark Gahegan |
| Francis Harvey | Mark Horner |
| Kathleen Hornsby | Fritz Kessler |
| Phaedron Kyriakidis | Mark Kumler |
| Jeremy Mennis | Harvey Miller |
| Harold Moellering | Judy Olson |
| Barbara Poore | Hanet Samet |
| Lauren Scott | Eric Sheppard |
| Terry Slocum | Dan Sui |
| Richard Taneka | David Tulloch |
| Dave Unwin | Jon Carr |
| Keith Clarke | Helen Couclelis |
| Tom Cova | Jeremy Crampton |
| William Craig | Darlene Wilcox |
| Michael Worboys | Dawn Wright |
| Yichun Xie | |
Please address questions and comments to managing editor David DiBiase at dibiase@psu.edu