Approving Bodies
Our continuing education content has been approved by outstanding universities with solid surveying programs, assuring you the content you take is reliable and acceptable to licensing boards. If you are not sure about a course, write to us at info@geo-learn.com or call us. Specific details on the approvers of our continuing education are provided below.
Our original approving partner was Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, so you’ll see many of our certificates with their name and seal. Our newest approving partner is East Tennessee State University, also an ABET-accredited surveying program. Some courses have other approvers, most often, a specific licensing board, but which most other licensing boards accept as a courtesy.
Unlike most other online providers, our presenters are industry-renowned professional faculty who deliver with leading-edge multimedia technology. You can decide whether you want the content all at once or in pieces. We hope to make thirst for geospatial knowledge contagious: our courses will give you the content you want, but you’ll be wanting to know even more.
The activities of geospatial professionals cover creation, manipulation and analysis geographical data sets, using data collection tools, spatial software and analytical methods.
East Tennessee State University
In 2023, GeoLearn has established a relationship with East Tennessee State University (ETSU)
to provide formal Professional Development Hour (PDH) approval for its online courses.
A comprehensive review program has been developed to evaluate the course content, to validate the course learning objectives and to assess the qualifications of the instructor. Through this review process, GeoLearn courses meet the same educational standards as East Tennessee State University’s ABET-accredited Surveying and Mapping Science degree program.
Many licensing boards accept PDHs that are attached to courses that undergo a process similar to the one GeoLearn follows with ETSU. Where needed, and upon request from our customers, GeoLearn will also seek approval from state licensing or certification boards, as needed. However, it is important for you to check with your particular state to confirm that our course(s) meet(s) its requirements for professional development, if you are not already aware of the statutes, rules and regulations that would apply. We would appreciate being informed of the outcome of such contacts that you might make with licensing boards. We are happy to cooperatively investigate these questions for our customers.
ETSU’s Surveying & Mapping Science Program
The Surveying and Mappings Science program at East Tennessee State University is among the premier surveying, geomatics and mapping baccalaureate certificates awarded in the United States. Their degree program provides students with the knowledge, skills, and opportunities required by today's highly competitive and highly paid geospatial job market.
ETSU’s degree program enables students to apply both scientific and mathematical principles to model the earth. Their students are trained to gather geospatial data via land surveying and convert this data, along with other data resources, into manageable maps and databases for display and analysis. A career in the geospatial industry is a student's opportunity to explore the world and utilize the latest computer technologies and sciences. In addition to a number of careers in the geospatial industry, all graduates are eligible to take the licensing examinations for Surveyor in Training (SIT) or Surveying Intern or similar designations, and, ultimately, Registered Professional Land Surveyor (RPLS).
Please visit the ETSU website for exciting details on their programs and to view a variety of videos on careers in the geospatial industry, research done by the students and faculty and coverage of geospatial issues.
ETSU Links
Texas A & M-Corpus Christi
At its founding, GeoLearn established a relationship with Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi to provide formal Professional Development Hour (PDH) approval for its online courses. Similar to relying on ETSU’s credibility, we have relied on this excellent program as well. as Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s ABET-accredited degree program.
That ongoing relationship for various administrative reasons has ended, but we continue to present the Texas A&M approval in our earlier courses, as this approval has not been withdrawn or expired.
Missouri Licensing Board
For various logistical reasons, we rely on approval of our courses by the Missouri Board For Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Professional Landscape Architects. This is a board which pre-approves continuing education. As most licensing boards accept the approvals of fellow licensing boards, we use this approval for a small minority of courses, when there are logistical reasons for doing so.
State-specific Courses
Currently we have portals that offer courses that are state-specific for Missouri, Oklahoma and New York. The courses for Missouri are also approved by the Missouri Board. In Oklahoma, the Board does not pre-approve courses. However the portal is under the auspices of the Oklahoma Society of Land Surveyors (OSLS) and the state specific courses are known by the Board to be developed under those auspices and are thus accepted to meet specific continuing education requirements.
In New York, the New York State Association of Professional Land Surveyors (NYSAPLS) by virtue of its status as an accepted provider of continuing education, has the state-specific courses accepted by New York’s Board.
