Materials

Level of Effort

The Introduction to Geospatial Data Competency-Based Educational (CBE) curriculum is divided into 4 competencies - each covering three topics. Each topic includes a lecture, demonstration, exercise, quiz, and project summary task that takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete...so students can expect to spend 60-72 hours to complete all 12 topics in this Introduction to Geospatial Data course.

• Lectures introduce concepts and discuss their application;

• Demonstrations apply these concepts using industry-standard GIS software;

• Exercises reinforce concepts and build proficiency;

• Quizzes assess your comprehension with 5 conceptual and 5 practical questions; and

• Projects include a work breakdown structure (i.e. list of tasks) with topic-related summary tasks that build on lectures, exercises, and demonstrations.

There are 4 competency-level projects and students can use their project deliverables to build a professional portfolio demonstrating their introductory GIS skills.