Best Practices

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• 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]

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