Call for URISA Certified Workshop Proposals

New Workshop Proposals Due February 11, 2013

URISA Members:

URISA Certified Workshops are well-known in the GIS Community for being comprehensive, unbiased, and valuable educational opportunities.

URISA’s Workshop Development Committee (WDC) is soliciting new workshops for development and for presentation at GIS-Pro: URISA's Annual Conference for GIS Professionals, chapter and regional conferences and as standalone educational offerings. One of the WDC’s most important annual activities is coordinating the development of new workshops and the improvement of existing workshops.
The WDC is soliciting new workshop topics from the membership for courses to be developed in 2013. The format of the courses may be full-day (8 hour), half-day (4 hour), or shorter modules delivered via the web.

Consider topics such as (this list is by no means comprehensive, just suggestions):

Introduction to GIS
Programming in GIS
Communicating the value of geospatial technology to decision makers and stakeholders
Best practices for data sharing and collaboration
Financial planning and funding development for GIS
Crafting and soliciting RFPs
Web delivery of GIS and mobile technologies
Integrating GIS & Building Information Models (BIM)

Not ready for the task of creating a new workshop? If you are interested in helping to update an existing workshop, we do have a slate of workshops that are in need of rework. The following workshops need attention:

3D Geospatial: Project Implementation Methods and Best Practices
Best Practices for Developing Geographic Information Models
Building Quality Spatial Data
Database Development and Conversion
Digital Orthophotography: Production and Application
eGovernment Planning Policy and the Portal

Criteria: Proposers, coordinators and instructors must be URISA members. A workshop must be presented with a minimum of two instructors. The workbook may not be copyrighted by the author or contain proprietary materials which may preclude URISA's use of the workbook/workshop at other URISA conferences and an instructors guide must be generated along with the course for additional instructors to utilize. If interested in submitting a certified workshop proposal, follow the schedule and steps below.

Workshop Proposal Schedule

January 31 February 11, 2013: Proposals due
February 11, February 26, 2013: Notification of acceptance
May 20, 2013: First draft of workbook due
August 5, 2013: Final draft of workbook due
September 16, 2013: Presentation of workshops at the GIS-Pro 2013: URISA's 51st Annual Conference for GIS Professionals in Providence, Rhode Island

If you have any questions, please contact URISA Education Manager, Keri Brennan, GISP, at kbrennan@urisa.org .

To propose a new workshop, download the proposal form and related documents or contact URISA Headquarters.

Proposals can be emailed to kbrennan@urisa.org when completed.

Download Proposal Form - note that the deadline has been extended to February 11!
View Description of Current Workshops
Download Workbook Guidelines

For questions or more information please contact Keri Brennan, GISP