Assessment of Workforce Demands to Shape GIS&amp;T Education

Wallentin, Gudrun; Hofer, Barbara; Traun, Christoph

doi:10.1111/tgis.12148

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“…Regular surveys of skill shortages, employer needs and graduate opportunities, often undertaken by governmental educational agencies, employers trade organizations, and employment consultants, have a valuable role to play in the important task of maintaining the BoK. Wallentin et al (2015) detail some of the practical ways by which revision of the GIST BoK have been informed by such initiatives. One final example of BoK usage is exemplified by Moellering (2012Moellering ( , 2015 who uses the BoK concept to reflect on the immediate past history of the discipline, noting its contribution to, and derivations from, the wider field of spatial science.…”

Section: Using a Body Of Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Creating a Body of Knowledge for cartography

Fairbairn

2018

Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc.

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Abstract:The nature of knowledge is considered, in particular its creation and formalisation, and some of the issues which re-late to disciplinary knowledge in particular. It is suggested that cartography has particular needs addressing its disciplinary boundaries, the role of uncertain and 'troublesome' knowledge in its subject-matter, and the enhancement of its subject-specific knowledge, with more generic supporting material, including skills and attitudes. An overview of Bodies of Knowledge (BoK) in other disciplines has been undertaken, and models of BoK structure, content and usage have been assessed. BoKs in closely related subjects, including civil engineering, GIS and software engineering, give examples of good practice. The paper concentrates on the work done to date to create the cartography BoK, and the adoption of the 'Delphi' method of consultation to develop it. The Delphi method is intended to yield consensus on the scope, content, context and use of the BoK. It is regarded as a rigorous process, iterative (and therefore time consuming), involving questionnaire survey, opinion gathering, discourse analysis, and feedback. The participants are expected to be experts, from a range of different sectors, but 'volunteer amateurs' are also important consultants.

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Section: Using a Body Of Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Creating a Body of Knowledge for cartography

Fairbairn

2018

Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc.

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“…GI-N2K assessment of workforce demand to shape GIS&T (Wallentin et al, 2015) (At the time of writing, the GI-N2K European BoK is still under construction -Car & Strobl). IV.…”

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“…We combined these findings with the outcomes of recent work on redesigning the GIS&T BoK (reported in Wallentin et al, 2015;Wilson, 2014) and derived a set of criteria for specifying course content for GIS Minors. Using the content of GIS&T BoK as the main source for a model curriculum, we selected a set of topics as the basis for the design of a Body of Knowledge of GIS Minors.…”

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Minor Programs in the Geospatial Domain – Referencing the GIScience and Technology Body of Knowledge

Car¹,

Strobl²

2016

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In this paper we analyse numerous Minor programs in GIScience & Technology (GIS&T) / Spatial Sciences offered worldwide as secondary subjects complementing Major programs at BSc and MSc level. The objectives are the identification of core contents and qualifications/competencies related to GI, and their respective weights measured in terms of credit points. The information derived provides a framework for the comparison of Minors at undergraduate and graduate levels, and serves as a basis for curriculum design of a Minor in GIS. The study draws upon and complements the recent activities of UCGIS to redesign the main reference document for curriculum design, GIS&T Body of Knowledge BoK2, as well as the European initiative GI-N2K, which analysed workforce demand in GIS&T.

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“…The Association of American Geographers published the first edition of GIS&T BoK, including a hierarchical structure of 10 knowledge areas, 73 units, 329 topics, and 1660 educational objectives, in 2006. The second edition including updates to better use GIS&T BoK, and presenting useful inputs to fulfill GIS workforce demand (Wallentin, Hofer and Traun, 2015) came in 2016, published online at http://gistbok.ucgis.org/. GIS&T BoK was taken as a starting point for a project for better aligning Europe's GIS&T curricula at the academic level, as explained at the project website, conducted with 35 partners from 25 countries (European Union, Geographic Information Need to Know Project, (GI-N2K, 2013).…”

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Introduction of Turkish Vocational Qualifications for Geographical Information Systems Related Jobs

Çabuk

2019

Lnternational Journal of Geography and Geography Education

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Geographical Information Systems (GIS) certification has become one of the assets enabling the recognition of the knowledge, skills and competencies of the persons working in a wide range of jobs and projects. Regarding this fact, the General Directorate of GIS, Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, was involved in the process of national vocational standards and qualifications development for GIS related jobs between 2013-2016. Accordingly, the main aim of this paper is to explain the process and give information about the results of the research projects and collaborative works realized in order to develop national vocational standards, vocational qualifications and a certification system for GIS Operator (Level 4) and GIS Specialist (Level 6). The overall process was mostly realized in collaboration with the Earth and Space Sciences Institute of Eskisehir Technical University (former Anadolu University), as well as other participants from various institutions, and continued along with two supplementary research projects that were aimed at the development of a comprehensive certification system for the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization. The research projects comprised the stages of detailed analysis and evaluations about the administrative, legal and technical requirements in accordance with the national vocational qualifications system and ISO/IEC 17024 standard, and were followed with the development of an integrated software to manage all the stages of the vocational certification, online examination, question bank development and quality assurance system. The results are believed to be valuable and triggering inputs for the development of other necessary vocational standards and qualifications for GIS related jobs, raise awareness for the necessity of vocational certification and help improve the context and quality of the GIS training/education curricula in the country.

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Assessment of Workforce Demands to Shape GIS&T Education

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

Creating a Body of Knowledge for cartography

Creating a Body of Knowledge for cartography

Minor Programs in the Geospatial Domain – Referencing the GIScience and Technology Body of Knowledge

Introduction of Turkish Vocational Qualifications for Geographical Information Systems Related Jobs

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