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| Subject: | Re: GISList: SUM: online masters degree in GIS |
| Date: |
06/10/2002 07:58:39 AM |
| From: |
Derek Link |
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Sorry for the late reply to this post, but I have not
been keeping up with email.
I am a master's degree candidate in geography (GIS) at
the City University of New York. We do not offer
online degrees, but next semester one of the best
preofessors in the department, Chuck Elschlaeger, is
offering an advanced GIS course that is available via
distance learning. He's the smartest GIS guy I have
ever met. His personal webpage is:
www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/~chuck
And you can see the course catalog for CUNY with the
class at:
http://registrar.hunter.cuny.edu/schedule/index.htm
Select "Geography and Geology" department from the
menu of choices. The course code for the distance
learning class is:
"GTECH 732.53 Seminar in Advanced GIScience Research"
The registars office may use different codes, but look
for that class. If I were looking for an advanced
online GIS course, I would DEFINITELY go with chuck!
--- "Jellison, Jim (Health)"
<jim_jellison@mhd.nashville.org> wrote:
> Here is a generalized summary of the responses I
> received:
>
> Many of you out there are also interested in these
> programs. One listing of
> organizations offering online GIS education is at:
> http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/education/ . There
> are more online courses
> for certificates and the like than there are for
> advanced degrees.
>
> A number of responses dealt with online vs.
> traditional education. If you
> thrive on face-to-face interaction with instructors
> and peers than online
> education is not for you. However it is worth
> noting that you will have
> ample opportunity to express yourself and discuss
> ideas using the written
> word via email/chat rooms (most online courses
> designate which language will
> be used). Many of the organizations offering these
> courses are traditional
> universities and online students seem to be welcome
> to visit and utilize
> resources if they wish. Clearly, the driving force
> behind online education
> is convenience. For many of us it is prohibitively
> inconvenient to quit our
> jobs and go back to school full-time.
>
> (It was not my wish to spark a debate over
> traditional/online education. My
> sense is that just as with traditional schools your
> educational experience
> may vary with online courses. As far as specific
> critiques I received on
> existing online masters degree programs in GIS see
> below.)
>
> I did receive some responses from those that are in
> an online Masters degree
> program. The comments were all positive. One
> responder did express some
> regret that her program did not cover programming.
> Most responders stressed
> that the student must be self-motivated due to the
> absence of a physical,
> university-type setting reminding them that they
> were in school as well as
> the presence day to day distractions that can be
> introduced by work and
> family. Generally speaking, the responders felt the
> instructors were
> knowledgeable, the course materials accessible (text
> lectures/journals/papers over the Web, text books
> via Amazon, etc.), and the
> content not software-specific. As far as some of
> these specifics go I
> should mention that most of the responders who have
> had actual experience
> were referring to the program offered by Birkbeck
> College, London UK. I did
> get one response from someone investigating a
> program offered by City
> University in London that is not listed in the web
> site above
> (www.soi.city.ac.uk./mgi).
>
> I will re-sum if I get anything new. Good luck to
> all of you interested in
> this path. Don't be a fool, stay in school! One
> way or another, that is.
>
>
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