Education

Last week Directions Magazine and All Points Blog focused their attention on the state of GIS education. Below are the articles specifically written for this project: Ten Things You Need to Know about UNIGIS Building the World’s First Geo-MOOC, Part 2 Professional Development MOOC on...

According to UNA’s [University of North Alabama] 2012 Marketing Research Report, the number of social science graduates has surpassed that of business majors over the course of the past six years. The report, which shows data as far back as 2006, shows that business majors at UNA have...

Esri is gearing up for this year’s Education GIS Conference scheduled for July 6-9 in San Diego. Here's a roundup of what educators and students need to know. 1) This week the team posted two short introductory videos. 2) The agenda is online. Those who were invited to speak have been...

Back in February 2012 Esri announced the five recipients of the ArcGIS Online Grant Program for Educators (press release). The results are starting to become public; two were featured in today's issue of twice a year Esri New for Education newsletter. The articles are "Online Exclusives" from...

The HP Catalyst Initiative, started in 2010, is funding a number of organizations to put together professional development "mini-courses" to teach a variety of educators (and students) in the STEMx (science, technology, engineering and math and other) disciplines. Among them is Del Mar College,...

I learned from a tweet from @URISA last week (April 16) that all three keynotes at CalGIS, last week’s URISA California GIS Conference, were by women.  @URISA Women in #GIS rule at the #CalGIS Conference... three keynotes, three amazing women GIS professionals. They...

Leap Motion’s gesture-based controller launch is less than a month away, but so far we’ve heard relatively little about app support, besides the fact that the company is working hard on filling out its Airspace app store. Now, Leap Motion and Google are announcing support for Google Earth for...

Spring break is over for students and its back to school work. GIS students are as returning to physical classrooms, continuing oniine courses, and pondering new delivery offerings coming later this year. K-16 educators are looking for new techniques to enhance teaching and learning and ways to...

Emory Law professor Kay Levine is one of four researchers recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study whether drug-free zone laws are enforced more aggressively in inner cities, and whether that enforcement results in disproportionately harsher sentencing of...

Many schools and universities in developing nations lack qualified GIS teachers and are in need of a kick start, which often comes in the form of a brief educational visit from an experienced GIS instructor. Esri often receives requests to help support underprivileged schools, so the company...