Archive for July, 2011
August Sale on Self-Paced GIS Training Bundles
During the month of August you can save up to $100 on our self-paced GIS training bundles. Bundling our self-paced courses is an excellent way to obtain training in several different subjects while getting a great discount on registration fees. Our current selection of software training bundles include:
- ArcGIS 10 Bundle
- Web Mapping Programmers Bundle
- Geodatabase Bundle
- ArcGIS Desktop 101 for ArcGIS 10 + GIS Programming 101 for ArcGIS 10
- Google Earth and Google Maps Bundle
- Google Maps Developer Bundle
- Google Earth Developer Bundle
Our self-paced GIS Training provides a fast, easy, inexpensive, and highly effective method for acquiring GIS skills. Here are some of the key features of our self paced training:
- Courses are delivered through our Virtual GIS Classroom
- What is the Virtual GIS Classroom? You can view a sample class here. Click “Login as a guest”
- One year of access for each course registration
- Bound hard copies of the lecture notes are available for a small additional charge. These are excellent resources if you need to take notes while watching the lectures.
- Courses can be taken from anywhere that you have an Internet connection. No special software is needed.
- An average of 40 hours training with each full length GIS course.
- Exercises and data included with each full length course to give hands-on experience with the software.
- GIS courses offered in a variety of formats including full length courses, chapter length courses, and job aids.
- Compatible with PCs and Mac
- GIS training delivered by experts in both audio and video – Anyone can learn regardless of your learning style (auditory or visual)
- You can repeat lessons anytime you like, from anywhere you like (you can’t do that with classroom training).
Fall GIS Training Schedule from GeoSpatial Training Services
We’re looking forward to an exciting Fall schedule of web-based, instructor guided training as well as traditional face to face training. Here is our current schedule.
Traditional face-to face training
- GIS Programming 101 for ArcGIS 10
Aug 23rd – 25th
Duluth, GA – Keck & Wood Headquarters
$1325.00 - Programming the Flex API for ArcGIS Server
Nov 7th – 8th
SHRUG 2011 Workshop
$560.00
Web based, instructor guided
- Mastering the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API
Aug 29th – Sept 30th
$615 when you register by July 31st - Programming the ArcGIS Server API for Flex
Aug 29th – Sept 30th
$615 when you register by July 31st - ArcGIS Server Bootcamp
Sept 12th – Oct 21st
$599 when you register by Aug 15th - Open Source GIS Bootcamp (PostGIS + GeoServer + OpenLayers)
Sept 6th – Oct 7th
$615 when you register by July 31st - ArcGIS Desktop 10 Asssociate Exam Preparation
Aug. 29th – Sept. 1st
$600 - Introduction to Managing ArcSDE with SQL Server
Sept. 26th – Oct. 14th
$499 when you register by Aug. 15th - Coming Soon is our Python GIS Programming Bootcamp
Consists of Introduction to the Python Programming Language, GIS Programming 101 for ArcGIS 10, Intermediate Python Programming, and Open Source GIS Programming with Python
Take the entire bootcamp or register individually.
More details coming soon!
GIS Salary Survey Results
We’re keeping the survey open through July 31st. If you haven’t already participated in the survey please take a few moments to do so and forward this to your colleagues.
To date we have had 731 respondents. Here are some of the highlights:
- 40% of respondents list their job titles as either GIS Analyst or GIS Technician. 16% are GIS Managers/Coordinators/Directors, and 6% GIS Developers/Programmers.
- 40% of respondents have 10 years of experience or greater.
- 43% have a Master’s degree or higher. Should You Get a Master’s Degree in GIS?
- 70% of respondents are male. I suppose this is better than it was 10 years ago, but we really need to attract more women to the field.
- 41% of you are between the ages of 30-39. 24% are between the ages of 40-49. Less than 2% are above the age of 60.
- Salaries appear to be widely dispersed with 29% between $50,000-$70,000/year. I was surprised to see almost 13% below $20,000/year.
- ESRI is far and away the most popular platform with 93% of respondents indicating this as one of their primary platforms. This question allows more than one platform to be selected. Open Source GIS software came in second at 14%. I suspect this will grow quite a bit in the coming years.
- Primary programming languages in use include .NET (55%), Python (50%) , JavaScript (27%), Java (20%), and Flex (17%). You can learn more about Python, JavaScript, and Flex through our training classes.
You can get all the results here.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Web Mapping Programmers Bundle
Today we are pleased to announce that our Web Mapping Programmers Bundle is now available for purchase.
This is a set of four self-paced, web based courses focused on developing web mapping applications with three of the leading JavaScript APIs.
Courses include:
- Introduction to the ArcGIS Server API for JavaScript
- Introduction to OpenLayers Programming
- Introduction to Programming the Google Maps API
- Advanced Google Maps Programming
This bundle of courses will be made available on Monday, July 18th. Links to each of the courses will be sent out on that date.
Through July 22nd you can pre-purchase this bundle for $299.00. After July 22nd the bundle will sell for $399.00.
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