Geographic information: need to know – towards a more demand-driven geospatial workforce education/training systems
Short Description
The GI N2K project will analyze the current market demands with regard to the knowledge and skills and compare them with the current training offer in the GI S&T sector. The existing GI S&T Body of Knowledge (BoK) will be used as a starting point, updated and brought in line with new technological developments, and with the European perspective in mind.
GEOTEC’s contribution
Next to a variety of smaller tasks, GEOTEC has two main responsibilities within the GIN2K project. First, as thematic experts, GEOTEC is leading the transformation of one of the nine knowledge area in the Book of Knowledge (BoK), bringing it up to date to the current state-of-the-art. Second, UJI is providing tool support on top of the updated BoK. In particular, a curriculum design tool is developed. It is conceived as a web-based application that allows educators to define a curriculum in terms of concepts present in the Body of Knowledge. The user is presented with a graphical and textual visualization of the BoK, and a graph-based editor to create a curriculum. While doing so, the user can relate curriculum elements (e.g., study programs, courses, exercise sessions) with BoK concept using a drag-and-drop interface. User can start a curriculum from scratch, or re-use an existing curriculum in the geo-spatial field, possibly from another university. Therefore, they can search and browse curricula. Finally, the user can compare curricula.
For this project UJI was also seconded by AGILE (Association for Geographic Laboratories in Europe) for performing the tasks related to WP2 BoK revision.
Publications
Aguilar-Moreno, EstefanÃa; Casteleyn, Sven; Huerta-Guijarro, JoaquÃn
Geographic Information Need to Know (GI-N2K): towards a more demand driven geospatial workforce education system Proceedings Article
In: Kavouras, Marinos; Sotiriou, Sofoklis (Ed.): Geospatial thinking: Educating the future spatial citizens. Proceedings of GEOTHNK project closing conference. 7 November 2015 Athens, pp. 77-90, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 2015, ISBN: 978-618-83392-0-3.
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title = {Geographic Information Need to Know (GI-N2K): towards a more demand driven geospatial workforce education system},
author = { EstefanÃa Aguilar-Moreno and Sven Casteleyn and JoaquÃn Huerta-Guijarro},
editor = {Marinos Kavouras and Sofoklis Sotiriou},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10234/159470},
isbn = {978-618-83392-0-3},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-01-01},
booktitle = {Geospatial thinking: Educating the future spatial citizens. Proceedings of GEOTHNK project closing conference. 7 November 2015 Athens},
pages = {77-90},
publisher = {National Technical University of Athens},
address = {Athens},
abstract = {The development of the Geographic Information Science & Technology (GI S&T) Body of Knowledge (BoK) in 2006 was a milestone achievement in the geospatial domain. It collects, describes and structures important concepts in the scientific field, and exposes them for theoreticians and practitioners alike. Today, after almost 10 years of scientific and technological developments in the geospatial field, the original BoK has become outdated. Geographic Information: Need to Know (GI-N2K) is a European project that intends to bring the original GI S&T BoK up to date. This paper explains the GI-N2K project objectives, the work already done, as well as next steps in reaching a renewed GI S&T BoK.},
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The development of the Geographic Information Science & Technology (GI S&T) Body of Knowledge (BoK) in 2006 was a milestone achievement in the geospatial domain. It collects, describes and structures important concepts in the scientific field, and exposes them for theoreticians and practitioners alike. Today, after almost 10 years of scientific and technological developments in the geospatial field, the original BoK has become outdated. Geographic Information: Need to Know (GI-N2K) is a European project that intends to bring the original GI S&T BoK up to date. This paper explains the GI-N2K project objectives, the work already done, as well as next steps in reaching a renewed GI S&T BoK.