Education
ESRI Australia is a strong supporter of the education of students - of all ages - in location intelligence and the use of GIS. Location intelligence and GIS are important in assisting educators, students, and their educational institutions to answer questions in all subject areas. By looking at things from a location aspect, students like Jack can gain a deeper understanding of their own local environment in a national or global context.
GIS in Schools
Schools Program Web Page
Overview
ESRI Australia's GIS in Schools program is now entering its tenth year, and has helped over five hundred schools introduce GIS into their classroom. Schools can use GIS to examine global issues such as development, where economic, social, political and environmental information like GDP can be overlayed with information about clean drinking water access, allowing the relationships between these
statistics to be visualised.
GIS in Universities
Overview
GIS is being used by an ever-increasing number of government departments, commercial businesses and educational organisations. With ever-increasing industry growth each year, there is now a huge demand for graduates who understand the power of location intelligence. ESRI GIS is taught in all major Australian universities across dozens of faculties and disciplines, from environmental management and planning to secondary teacher education and marketing.
GIS in Universities