Wintertime Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Info here: Maps and the Geospatial Revolution No date announced yet. Coursera's courses are free. Usual disclaimer: I'm not an employee or in any way benefiting from sign-ups for this course. Just thought it might be of interest to some folks here. Patty Quote Link to comment
mloser Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Looks neat! I may give it a go. Penn State's World Campus offers degrees in GIS. During a non-planned job hiatus I took two of them, thinking I might change careers, but I stopped when a job in my field popped up. The online courses were very good and well run. The Coursera course is run by a World Campus GIS instructor so it should be well done. Quote Link to comment
+MaliBooBoo Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Wow, thanks for sharing! I am going to have to seriously think about taking this! Quote Link to comment
mloser Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 If you signed up for course information you already know this, but the class has opened for registration. It starts April 30th and lasts 5 weeks. Quote Link to comment
Wintertime Posted May 4, 2014 Author Share Posted May 4, 2014 (edited) Just a reminder that this class has now started. So far it's perfectly understandable by laypeople! The instructor is emphasizing how important maps are in our everyday lives. There's a video that was produced by WPSU-TV called "The Geospatial Revolution" that has interviews with people from ESRI, the U.S. Space Command, Google, and many other mapping agencies. Part of the video explains how a grassroots open-source mapping area helped people after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Good stuff. p.s. I just discovered that the Royal Museums Greenwich are doing a whole series of exhibits and events from now until 2015 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Longitude Act: The Longitude Season There's everything from a steampunk exhibit to planetarium shows to lectures and much more. Boy, I wish I could get to London this year! Edited May 4, 2014 by Wintertime Quote Link to comment
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