Title: A Scalable Skills Certification Program in Geographic Information Systems GIS
1National Visiting Committee Meeting 2007
April 16, 2007, San Diego
Year Ahead (SDSU team works in 4th Year and
Student Learning Assessment)
San Diego State University
2Research Activities
- One major task in the fourth year will be the
evaluation of the project effectiveness. SDSU
research team will focus on three major subjects
for the evaluations - Project website evaluation We will continue to
analyze the weblogs to create bi-monthly report
to evaluate how many users have been accessed the
project websites, and how many times do the GIS
modules have been downloads (bi-monthly), how
many GIS maps have been viewed. Also, in the
project website, the user feedback web pages will
be monitored. - GIS CAREER Awareness Modules evaluation We will
calculate how many students have used this
modules (each new users will need a login-name
and password to access the web GIS system). How
many students have been completed the learning
modules (to receive the Certificates). In each
students answers, we will also collect students
feedbacks and the teachers feedback. - High School Teacher Workshop evaluation The
SDSU team will continue to create high school
teacher workshops and each workshop will have
questionnaire to get teachers direct feedback.
We will compile these questionnaires and provide
a summary report for our project.
3An Integrated GIS Education Program
- High Schools (GIS 1c/2c)
- Community Colleges
- (Mesa College GIS 110, 111, 112)
- Universities (four years undergraduate and
graduate study M.A., M.S. and Ph.D. programs)
General Education GEOG 104 - Advanced GEOG 381, 484, 584, CS 537, CS 657.
- (Seamless GIS Education Integration)
- Students can continue the learning of GIS
technology and get some transfer credits between
the three levels.
4GEOG 104 Improvement and Articulation
(http//map.sdsu.edu/geog104)
Make more articulation work with other community
colleges (Mesa College, Grossmont College,
Southwestern College)
5Research Activities Object 5
- Improve and Revise Web-based GIS Career awareness
program. - Create more connection to Education Content
Standards and Goals - Upgrade to new version of software and tools
- Correct errors and mistakes in the modules
- Streamline the paper certificate production and
distribution.
6Research Activities Object 6
- Share the Model GIS program with other
educational institutions and communities across
the U.S. - Conference Presentation and Proceeding
- 2007 ESRI International User conference
- Book chapter Ming-Hsiang Tsou, (Accepted). The
Integration of Internet GIS and Wireless Mobile
GIS. In Manual of GIS, edited by Marguerite
Madden, published by the American Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) - Peer Review Journal Article
- Tsou, M.H., Guo, L., and Howser, T. (2006). A
Web-based Java Framework for Cross-Platform
Mobile GIS and Remote Sensing Applications.
GIScience Remote Sensing. 42(4). Pp. 333-357. - Tsou, M.H. and J. Chen (Submitted). Adopting
Web-based Geographic Information Services (Web
GIS) in High School Geographic Education.
Journal of Geography.