Customized Micro-Credentials and Training
The UMass Global Institute for Geospatial Education will work closely with your organization to develop customized training and education solutions tailored to your goals and objectives.
Customized Micro Credentials & Training
UMass Global is committed to providing global customized training and education solutions for K-12 to corporations. Let us help you unlock the full potential of your workforce with our customized education and training solutions.
The UMass Global Institute for Geospatial Education will work closely with your organization to develop a customized plan tailored to your goals and objectives. This can involve:
- Badging for micro-credentials
- Create new, targeted curriculum for your organization (see list below)
- Incorporate your own training/education as part of customized curriculum
- Package short ,hands-on units of learning (10 hours or less)
- Incorporate assessments
- Creating pathways to college credit for credit
- Create opportunities for Continuing Education Units
Our flexible online platform allows individuals to learn independently from anywhere in the world. Best of all, learner who complete our customized programs can earn credit toward their degree or certificate.
We focus on teaching skills in high demand for today's rapidly evolving data-driven job market. We focus on Modern GIS (geospatial problem solving), data literacy, sustainability, the environment, ethnic studies, economic development, community, health and equity.
Short Micro Credentials (10 hours):
We focus on the following skills:
- Geospatial Problem Solving
- Geospatial Storytelling
- Data Visualization
- Finding & Evaluating Data
- GIS Ethics
- Geospatial Communication
- Community Engagement
K-12 Education
- Storytelling with Data
- Critical Thinking Using GIS
- Teaching (Geo)Spatial Thinking
- Data Literacy with GIS
- Ethnic Studies (Geo)Spatial Applications
Data, Visualization & Communications
- Communications Using GIS
- Data Analytics
- Data Wrangling
- Data Visualization
- Media Literacy Using GIS
- Foundations in Spatial Communications
Emergency Management & Health Care
- Emergency Management Using GIS
- GIS for Emergency Preparedness and Planning
- GIS for Emergency Response and Recovery
- Geospatial Healthcare Decision-Making
Environment and Communities
- Environmental Literacy (water/ocean, land, air)
- Empowering Communities with Data
- Community and Economic Development Using GIS
- Community Resilience & Climate Change
- Geospatial Equity & Empowerment
- GIS and Community Economic Development
- Equity for Action
- GIS Project Planning & Leadership
- GIS For Non-Profits
Data Governance
- Change Management
- Data Quality
- Metadata
- Business Intelligence
- Data Security
- Data Warehousing
- Data Architecture
Geospatial Workplace Competencies
- Sustainable Practices Using GIS
- Making Decisions Using Geospatial Information
- Business Fundamentals using GIS
- Teamwork
- Planning and Organizing Using GIS
- Checking, Examining and Recording