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The usage of UCGIS “Body of Knowledge” in European universities Kreet Masik University of Tartu

Description of the selection • Was mailed to 523 respondents from 269 different universities • 113 responses -> 21% of all respondents • 37% of all the universities who participated in this survey • Responses from 27 different countries (25 European countries) and 99 different universities • 76 universities in Worlds Top 600 universities(www.topuniversities.ee)

GIS usage in other departments/faculties

GIS courses for bachelor and master degree students

Usage of “Body of Knowledge”

The highest rates for each evaluation • Very thoroughly covered topics: AM4 (Basic analytical operations) - 34% of respondents CV3 (Principles of map design) - 34% of respondents • Thoroughly covered topics: AM5 (Basic analytical methods) - 51% of respondents DM4 (Vector and object data models) - 51% of respondents

The highest rates for each evaluation GD6 (Data quality) - 51% of respondents • Shortly covered topic: DM2 (Database management systems) - 45% of respondents • Only mentioned topic: GS2 (Economic aspects) - 46% of respondents • Not covered topic: GC5 (Genetic algorithms (GA)) - 51% of respondents

Analytical methods

Conceptual Foundations

Cartography and Visualization

Design Aspects

Data Modeling

Data Manipulation

Geocomputation

Geospatial Data

GIS&T and Society

Organizational & Institutional Aspects

Comparison between Knowledge Areas

Conclusions • The home discipline for GIS is not anymore only geography • GIS courses are mostly interdisciplinary • The usage of BoK is low, but most of BoK topics are still covered during GIS courses • 5 (covered very thoroughly) wasn’t the most frequent evaluation for any unit

Conclusions • At most covered topics are: AM4 (Basic analytical operations), AM5 (Basic analytical methods), AM2 (Query operations and query languages), CV3 (Principles of map design), CV4 (Graphic representation techniques), GD3 (Georeferencing systems), GD11 (Satellite and shipboard remote sensing)

Conclusions • The topics from knowledge area “Geocomputation” are only mentioned or not covered at all • Not all core units are covered very thoroughly or thoroughly (specially in knowledge areas OI and GS) -> these knowledge areas too USA centric?

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