Seminar: Why Teaching with GIS Matters

As issues of climate change, economic globalisation, urban sprawl, biodiversity loss, sustainable agriculture, water quality and quantity, crime, energy, tourism, political instability, and natural hazards grow in importance on a global scale – but also increasingly affect our everyday lives – teaching with GIS is critical to empower students to grapple with, and solve these challenges. This requires a populace that has a firm foundation in spatial thinking and can think critically by manipulating big-data.  Esri’s Dr. Joseph Kerski discusses the interdisciplinary benefits of teaching with GIS across universities in order to build a spatially literate population.

Where: RMIT University, Building 80, Level 9, Room 12

When: 4pm – 5pm Wednesday 30 August

More details can be found here.