Online Advanced Certificate in Mobile GIS Applications Development and other Education GIS News
A new fully online advanced certificate program offered by Long Island University explores the development of geography-based smartphone and tablet apps—their creation, their implementation and their introduction to the mass market.
The 12-credit Advanced Certificate in Mobile GIS Applications Development, approved by the New York State Education Department, trains students to create mobile applications for wireless handheld devices using location-based technologies. Student will learn how to build apps that deliver information and services directly to a user’s smartphone or tablet – in real-time – based on their geographic location.
It's a four course distance learning program which launches this June. It was co-developed by Dr. Patrick Kennelly, associate professor of g eography at LIU Post. Pat also holds a position at Penn State.
Oliver Giron received an undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from Rutgers University in 2006, and currently is earning a master’s degree in photography at George Mason University. Now he's mapping illegal dumping sites in Fairfax County, VA as part of the LetsDoItWorld efforts. (We featured that group in a Directions Magazine article.) He first did that kind of work in Peru.
USGIF has money for geospatially-focused students in high school, undergrad, grad and doctoral programs
