It’s almost time to launch our first online cohort of students in our School of Education’s program in Spatial Literacy for Educators. This term’s first class, EDUC 617 – GIS & Mapping as Instructional Tools – will be taught by Kristi Alvarez. It’s the most geography and GIS focused of the four courses. My contribution to the program, EDUC 616 – Foundations of Spatial Thinking – will be offered in Winter Term this year (starting in January 2012). Though I am the guest speaker for the first week of Kristi’s class! The other two courses involve curriculum development and assessment.
In July I was interviewed by Jesse Rouse of Very Spatial about the program, and you can listen here to the podcast.
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This online certificate sounds really cool! I’m going to let people at the Utah State Office of Education know about it.