Metadata Education Project

Survey of GIS-related courses

Description of column fields used for survey

Includes Institution, department, course name, course type, and if the course has any special designation (short course, distance-learning course, part of a certificate program, community college course).

"Yes", "No" or "NA" (not available) records for on-line availability of course outline, lecture materials, and exercises. "Yes" or "No" for whether the course includes a student or group project. "Yes" if the on-line materials include quiz or exam material or preparation matierial; blank if no on-line materials for quizes/exams exists.

"Yes" or "No" or blank records whether the existing course outline or material address these topics:

Metadata
Standards (software or data standards) or legal/ethical issues concerning GIS
Data Quality (error/uncertainty issues)
Data Sources (where do you find data, how do you assess data' fitness for use)
Implementation (issues related to GIS project design and its implementation both within a project or within an organization)
Decision making (issues related to using GIS and spatial data for decision making, decision support systems)
Future (future trends in GIS such as distributed computing, new data models, fuzzy datasets)

"Yes" or "No" records whether the course references other materials, such as the NCGIA core curriculum, the Geographer's Craft materials, or other on-line tutorials/educational content.

Includes comments on course structure and methods (if any) on integrating metadata or potential avenues for integrating metadata.

Includes course website (if available), instructor and instructor's e-mail