GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION IN CHINA, PRESENT AND FUTURE
With the industrialization of GIS and the enhancement of GIS accreditation by government, enterprise, and society at the beginning of the 21st Century, geo-spatial information technology has experienced rapid development and broader diffusion in China. Meanwhile, GIS education in China also grows into a new level in manifesting itself on large-scale, hierarchical and comprehensive cultivation. The education resources are relative abundant; the teaching modes and methods are also becoming multiform. With opportunities and challenges that coexist under the new circumstances, the rapid growth of GIS education brings us urgent problems as well as wonderful hopes. The problems include unbalanced development of education, low integration amplitude of courses and under-developed education systems. How to solve these problems has become the focus of the public attention. In this paper, the main achievements and problems of GIS education in China are reviewed. Suggestions are then made for the development of GIS education in the near future in response to the growing GIS market and for better integration with international GIS education on the aspect of education level, teaching mode, teaching practice and cultivation system.
GIS Higher Education Review Achievement Present Prospect
TANG Guoan DONG Youfu JIA Yini GAO Yiping
Key laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Nanjing Normal University), Ministry of Education, Key laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Nanjing Normal University), Ministry of Education,
国际会议
北京
英文
6106-6111
2008-07-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）