Creating a Smarter Campus: GIS for Education
Discover how educators, researchers, IT support, and administrators can transform education inside and out, now and for the future.

Geographic information system (GIS) technology offers a powerful decision-making tool in various aspects of education. It gives educators a new opportunity to teach problem-solving to a tech-savvy generation of learners. Researchers can use GIS for data visualization and integration, and IT professionals can improve the offerings of their cloud-based platforms. GIS offers administrators a way to visualize and manage everything from mapping campus buildings to planning where and when to close schools and open new ones.

Creating a Smarter Campus: GIS for Education explores a collection of real-life stories about education organizations doing just that with GIS. Through their ideas, plans, and goals, they help readers understand how to use GIS and integrate spatial reasoning into teaching, research, and management. A “next steps” section provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help you jump-start using GIS for education. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book. 

Edited by Joseph Kerski, education manager at Esri, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist. 

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Creating a Smarter Campus: GIS for Education
Discover how educators, researchers, IT support, and administrators can transform education inside and out, now and for the future.

Geographic information system (GIS) technology offers a powerful decision-making tool in various aspects of education. It gives educators a new opportunity to teach problem-solving to a tech-savvy generation of learners. Researchers can use GIS for data visualization and integration, and IT professionals can improve the offerings of their cloud-based platforms. GIS offers administrators a way to visualize and manage everything from mapping campus buildings to planning where and when to close schools and open new ones.

Creating a Smarter Campus: GIS for Education explores a collection of real-life stories about education organizations doing just that with GIS. Through their ideas, plans, and goals, they help readers understand how to use GIS and integrate spatial reasoning into teaching, research, and management. A “next steps” section provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help you jump-start using GIS for education. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book. 

Edited by Joseph Kerski, education manager at Esri, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist. 

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Discover how educators, researchers, IT support, and administrators can transform education inside and out, now and for the future.

Geographic information system (GIS) technology offers a powerful decision-making tool in various aspects of education. It gives educators a new opportunity to teach problem-solving to a tech-savvy generation of learners. Researchers can use GIS for data visualization and integration, and IT professionals can improve the offerings of their cloud-based platforms. GIS offers administrators a way to visualize and manage everything from mapping campus buildings to planning where and when to close schools and open new ones.

Creating a Smarter Campus: GIS for Education explores a collection of real-life stories about education organizations doing just that with GIS. Through their ideas, plans, and goals, they help readers understand how to use GIS and integrate spatial reasoning into teaching, research, and management. A “next steps” section provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help you jump-start using GIS for education. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book. 

Edited by Joseph Kerski, education manager at Esri, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781589487376
Publisher: Esri Press
Publication date: 12/06/2022
Series: Applying GIS , #11
Pages: 170
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Joseph J. Kerski is an education manager for Esri and is president of the National Council for Geographic Education.

Matt Artz is a principal content strategist for Esri Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

How to use this book xiii

Part 1 Educators 1

GIS project helps with food insecurity and waste 3

Palomar College

Mapping for equity and environmental justice 8

Equity Research Institute, University of Southern California

Building a geospatial legacy 12

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Students map ingenious route to clean water 18

Saaf wafer

Students see opportunities for community growth 23

Perm State University

Making GIS a statewide initiative 28

West Virginia Department of Education

High school helps students expand their analytic capabilities 31

Loudoun Valley High School

Part 2 Researchers 39

Serious game play 41

Rochester Institute of Technology

Communities see how land-use changes may affect local water quality 49

Tipping Point Planner Program

Evaluating tobacco use on a tobacco-free campus 56

University of South Carolina

Geospatial brainpower: Research on spatial reasoning 60

The Geospatial Semester at James Madison University

GIS and ancient trees reveal past temperatures and climate change 67

University of Arizona's Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and Western Washington University

Mapping pikas' habitat to help save them 73

Nevada Department of Wildlife; University of Nevada, Reno; and San José State University

Part 3 It Support 79

University inspires campus-wide GIS use 81

Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies

University makes GIS accessible across campus 89

University of California Son Diego

Mapping without boundaries: GIS reaches across university and beyond 93

Colorado State University

Scaling up GIS across campus 99

University of Michigan

University empowers campus-wide GIS 102

HAS University of Applied Sciences

Part 4 Administrators 107

School district integrates CAD and GIS for planning 109

Albuquerque Public Schools

Online schooling prompts municipalities to map digital inequities 114

Philadelphia and Palm Beach School Districts

University uses GIS to rethink campus litter management 120

Michigan State University

New university campus incorporates GIS from the outset 128

Sabah Al-Salem University City - Kuwait University

GIS improves estate management 133

University of Cambridge

It's in the wastewater: Sensing and mapping COVID-19 137

University of California San Diego

Crowdsourcing a university's facilities mapping 142

Washington State University

Next Steps 148

Contributors 155

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