The Virtual Geography Department Project

Goals:

	Offer  high quality curriculum materials and classroom and laboratory modules across the Internet.
	To promote collaborative research.
	Stress is being placed on  the creation of on-line "electronic" texts and resource materials that will be of service to a wide range of departments.
	The project links existing materials already available on the Internet
	Project has commissioned new materials to address topics not now represented on the Internet.

This approach allows geographers at many universities to share the time and expense of developing curriculum materials and benefit from the materials that might not otherwise be made available commercially.

Issues to be addressed by the Virtual Department Project

	establishing a method of review and publication suited to Internet resources;
	creating a method for indicating and confirming intellectual provenance;
	providing a means by which electronic publications can be credited to their authors and cited by students and other scholars;
	assembling an interlocking set of on-line research and reference materials that will represent the discipline of geography to non-geographers using the Internet.

Project funded by the National Science Foundation and endorsed by the National Council for Geographic Education, the Commission of College Geography of the Association of American Geographers, and the Geography Education Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.

Organization of the Virtual Geography Department Project

Principle Investigator

Kenneth Foote, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin

Advisory Board:

Sarah Bednarz Department of Geography, Texas A&M University

Jeremy Crampton, Department of Geography and Earth System Science, George Mason University

A. David Hill, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder

Gail Ludwig, Department of Geography, University of Missouri, Columbia

Ruth Shirey, Department of Geography, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Structure: Working Groups

Cartography (not available)

Cultural Geography

Earth's Environment and Society

Geographic Information Sciences/Remote Sensing/Statistics

History and Philosophy of Geography

Introductory Human Geography

Physical Geography

Urban and Economic Geography

Virtual Field Trips

World Regional Geography and Area Studies

	Virtual Geography Department Home Page
	Text of original proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation

Contents of this page adapted from:  Quick Guide to the Virtual  Department

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Created by Michael Ritter ( mritter@uwsp.edu ) Last revised 8/20/97