Education

It’s “back to school” time once again! K-12 and higher education faculty and those who lead informal programs are preparing for this year’s geography and GIS students. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg found several resources geared more toward instructors, but valuable to students as well.

If you’ve been following election news, you’re likely aware of the controversy surrounding Pennsylvania’s strict Voter ID law. The new law requires that citizens show valid photo ID (restricted to a few types) when they cast a ballot. Tamara Manik-Perlman of Azavea analyzes the law's impact.

It’s "back to school" time once again! K-12 and higher education students are preparing to hit the e-books, but so are many adult learners and working professionals. Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg examines the new GIS education offerings for fall and what they tell us about the state of the GIS marketplace.

Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg boils down at this year’s Esri International User Conference into just a few takeaways.

Did you miss any of the Esri UC pre-conference seminars and summits? We've recapped all the information from the EdUC and Senior Executive Seminar.

How many PowerPoint-based presentations have you sat through in the past year? Tens? Hundreds? How many of them engaged you and got you excited and learning? Have you wondered if the lecture-with-slides format is the best one for conference presentations? Executive Editor Adena Schutzberg shares her ideas on how to make conference presentations more engaging.

Long Island University has just opened the virtual doors on its Advanced Certificate in Mobile GIS Applications Development, a four-course program taught entirely online. The first courses begin in the fall. Directions Magazine interviewed the team to learn more about the motivations and expectations of the instructors and potential students.

Reid Williamson, 64, has been to every county in the United States, 3,143 of them. While we and our peers are mapping these units, he’s been methodically visiting them starting at age 14, when he received an atlas as a gift. 

Users of maps and other visualizations of data want it all. They want both detail and context as they explore small scale (large area) graphics. Technologies to address this challenge have come and gone. The latest one is from researchers at Purdue. Their tool, dubbed PolyZoom, organizes simultaneous, magnified views from a single document, while maintaining their relationship to the whole.

Unlike the board game, the Map of Life lives online and as its name suggests, maps out life on earth. To be more specific, it provides location information for a selection of living things on earth.