GIS Education Weekly: Geo for All Plans to Expand Reach, What Students in GIS are Doing

Geo for All to Work with other GIS Education Proponents

Geo for All Logo

A thread on the newly renamed Geo for All mailing list addresses concerns about the group's singular focus on open principles and software to the exclusion of proprietary ones. It's worth reading but the upshot is that there is indeed an opportunity for Geo for All to reach out to, communicate with and perhaps work with organizations such as Esri and AAG who are helping to grow GIS and geography education. As of today, Geo for All is looking for some leadership for this effort. The phrase “More People Making Maps That Matter,” was a suggested rallying cry.

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GIS Education Weekly: New Masters Degrees and Ed Tech

Companies in GIS Education

CartoDB can be found at these schools

CartoDB shared a slide deck it presents to investors. It's discussed here by the COO. In one corner of the slide titled "The Geospatial Ecosystem" are logos of educational institutions using its software.

Boundless formally announced its academic engagement initiative via a press release. I noted the beginning of this effort last November. 

New Geo Masters Degrees

The National University of Singapore will offer a Master of Science in Applied Geographic Information Systems starting this August. If I understand correctly, applications for the first cohort closed yesterday. This is a full or part time residence program.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will offer a wholly online, part-time Master of Applied Science in Spatial Analysis for Public Health degree program beginning this fall. Via press release.

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