GIS Education Weekly: MapMOOC Maps, Jobs for Graduates, Marketing GIS Programs

The Guardian: Geography is "must have"

The UK's Guardian newspaper offers an editorial pointing out the increased interest in geography via the A-level exam.

According to the Royal Geographical Society, 13% more took the subject at A-level this year than last, up to 37,100 – the biggest jump of any of the major subjects.

Why? 

Part of the explanation is [former Secretary of State for Education] Michael Gove’s determination to make schools focus on more traditional academic subjects at GCSE and A-level, rather than general studies or critical thinking.

The editorial also notes that geography graduates have higher employment levels six months out of school that others majors. I dug into the topic in a post earlier this week.

Cartographer Explains the Making of the Maps of the Maps MOOC 

The blog post Making Maps of a MOOC from Penn State PhD candidate Carolyn Fish explains the process of mapping data from the school's Mapping and the Geospatial Revolution Coursera-hosted course.

CartoDB White Paper on GIS Education

@CartoDB tweeted:

Our latest whitepaper is here! Check out how CartoDB provides GIS solutions for the educational community: http://hubs.ly/H0141lG0

It's titled The Future of GIS Education. A cloud-based, open source GIS and mapping solution for education.