Recent Tweets
- @GeodataPolicy drawing conculsions from a 9 year old survey in this market is pretty spurious - i agree it is time for a redux #urisa
- @DaleLoberger @geocrusader80 Do you think more local gov'ts are moving towards #opendata since the 2003 #URISA survey? // cc @kpomfret 2/2
- @DaleLoberger I believe I suggested that it's time for an update to the #URISA data policy survey. 1/2
- Two #URISA Certified Workshops are being offered at the Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference, February 13-14. http://t.co/25EG41tz
- Bravo!: URISA's GISCorps Continues to Impact the World: http://t.co/W17ey6VL via @gisuser #URISA #GISCorps
Call for Papers: URISA Journal Special Issue on Geospatial Education and Training
The URISA Journal—the geospatial field’s premier open-access, peer-reviewed publication—invites original manuscripts reporting innovative research and development projects related to higher education in Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS&T – a.k.a. “geospatial”).
The special issue will include both full-length (~ 5,000 word) peer-reviewed articles and shorter (~ 500 word) desk-reviewed reports. It will be a sequel to the original 2003 URISA Journal “UCGIS special issue” (http://www.urisa.org/files/vol15no1.pdf). In contrast to the 2003 edition, the 2010 issue will highlight issues of concern to two-year higher education institutions–which serve nearly half of U.S. undergraduate students. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Curriculum design issues, including competency models and DACUM occupation analyses
- Educational requirements for professional certification and licensure
- GIS as general education
- Articulation agreements that enable students to transfer credits between two-year and four-year institutions
- History of geospatial education in two-year institutions
- International and cross-cultural issues
- Online and blended learning
Authors interested in contributing to the special issue should send a 200-word preliminary abstract to interim editor David DiBiase at dibiase@psu.edu and should plan to deliver manuscripts according to the following timeline:
- June 1, 2010: Abstracts to editor
- June 15, 2010: Notification of acceptance status
- August 1, 2010: Complete manuscripts to editor
- August 2010: Manuscript review period
- September 15, 2010: Reviews and manuscript revision requests to authors
- October 15, 2010: Revised manuscripts to editor
- November 1, 2010: Final manuscripts delivered to URISA headquarters for technical proofreading and formatting
- December 1, 2010: Publication
