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Recommended Citation: Wu, P Y. Introducing Geographic Information Systems into the IS Curriculum: GIS Tutorial and Preparation Workshop. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2007, v 24 (Pittsburgh): §3732. ISSN: 1542-7382.

Introducing Geographic Information Systems into the IS Curriculum: GIS Tutorial and Preparation Workshop

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Peter Y. Wu    [a1] [a2]
Department of Computer and Information Systems
Robert Morris University    [u1] [u2]
Moon Township, Pennsylvania, USA    [c1] [c2]

The use of geographic information system (GIS) has been growing tremendously in many areas of application. The lowering cost of hardware and software, along with the relative ease of access to data on the internet, in the past two decades also fueled the proliferation. When IS/IT practices in business are eagerly seeking for a competitive edge in the intelligent use of information, GIS skills and technologies offer new ways of using information, such as those in spatial and topological data analysis. It is definitely the time to add GIS courses into the IS curriculum. The past ISECONs include quite a few papers on the subject. This workshop begins with a GIS tutorial, covering the basic use of GIS to spatial data analysis, leading to a glimpse of the range of application areas. The second half of the workshop the discusses what is the needed preparation for an introductory GIS course, from software to lab facilities and data resources and books, leading to a draft account of cost involved in starting and running a GIS course.

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