GIS Education Weekly: Some Coursera MOOCs are Still Free!

Courses and Programs

Loma Linda University: LLU School of Public health intensifies focus on geoinformatics with GIS certificate, cognate courses - The school will offer a certificate in health geoinformatics (CHGIS) and a "series of cognate courses in GIS technology and applications for students working toward a master of public health (MPH) degree. " Both offerings begin summer quarter, June 18. 

TeachMeGIS will be releasing a GISP Test Prep course this spring. Via LinkedIn.

GIS Education Weekly: DIgitalGlobe Shares Imagery, Health GIS Course, PCI Center of Excellence

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Maps and the geospatial revolution: teaching a massive open online course (MOOC) in geography

Penn State's Anthony Robinson shares lessons learned from teaching the Maps MOOC in this article. It's now readable (open access) to all for free. To be clear, Penn State paid for it to be free. That's how publishing works nowadays.

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Mapbox Education

I have an interview in the works with Lyzi Diamond of the education team at Mapbox, but for now you might want to read this Twitter conversation.