Essential Information for Educators

Best Practices

The following is just a sampling of the articles, white papers, and case studies interspersed throughout ESRI.com. For more real-world scenarios of problem solving with GIS, please visit our comprehensive Industries Showcase and browse ESRI in the News.

• Two Necessary Approaches—Teaching about GIS and teaching with GIS
• New Ways to Teach about Africa
• Spatial Thinking, Education, and the Workforce
• Defining the Geospatial Workforce
• The Fourth R? Rethinking GIS Education
• Exploring History Through Maps, Taking the Mystery Out of Working With Census Data
• Virtual Reality Meets GIS: 3D on the Wall
• Social Sciences—Interest in GIS Grows
• GIS Across the Campus
• GIS in K–12 Education [PDF]
• Guidelines for Developing a Successful and Sustainable Higher Education GIS Program [PDF]
• GIS Approach to Digital Spatial Libraries [PDF]

Learn More About GIS

Watch ESRI—Creating GIS for a Better World to learn more about ESRI and how GIS is utilized by various industries.

KanGIS.org is a Web site providing technical and pedagogical support for educators using GIS, including the KanGIS listserv, a K12 GIS News Blog, and the GIS Training Calendar.

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