The NCGIA core curricula in GIS and remote sensing

Since the development of the original NCGIA Core Curriculum in GIS (Goodchild and Kemp 1990), the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis has been providing support and direction to the GIS education community. Following the success of the original Core Curriculum, three new curricula are now under development. All are being constructed and distributed on the World-Wide Web and involve international authorship and editorial input. This paper outlines the origins of these projects and some of the issues related to the development of Web-based instructional materials that they raise.