The document discusses a proposed improvement to make geo-information (GI) education more transparent. It proposes relating course content to an external reference and creating a label that could be added to course descriptions. This label would make the contents of diverse GI education and training programs easier to describe.

1. Problem:
GI education and training comes in many shapes and sizes.
The ways to describe their contents are diverse too.
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Frans I. Rip, Lab. of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing
Wageningen University and Research centre, the Netherlands
frans.rip @ wur.nl – http://www.grs.wur.nl/UK/
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2. EduMapping relates course content to an external reference
and creates a LABEL
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ASSESSMENT
Frans I. Rip, Lab. of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing
Wageningen University and Research centre, the Netherlands
frans.rip @ wur.nl – http://www.grs.wur.nl/UK/
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Proposed
improvement

3. This label,
added to course
descriptions, should
make GI education more
transparent
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Frans I. Rip, Lab. of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing
Wageningen University and Research centre, the Netherlands
frans.rip @ wur.nl – http://www.grs.wur.nl/UK/
a GI Content
Label

4. Frans I. Rip, Lab. of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing
Wageningen University and Research centre, the Netherlands
frans.rip @ wur.nl – http://www.grs.wur.nl/UK/
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Reference
Rip, F. I. and R. J. A. van Lammeren (2010). Mapping Geo-Information Education In Europe.
ISPRS 2010, Mid-Term Symposium Commission VI - Cross-Border Education for Global
Geo-Information, Enschede, the Netherlands, International Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing.