Abstract
digital-earth.eu - A European network for Digital Earth education
Track: User Presentations - Teaching
Authors: Karl Donert
European school education has so far, by and large, ignored geospatial developments, despite the fact that geo-technology is already a significant employer. There are small pockets of intense activity, the challenge is to scale these developments up. This presentation reports on networking initiatives developed by the digital-earth.eu project to connect organisations involved in geospatial education, to share practice, provide advice and guidance on the use of geographic information to others and be a place for new initiatives.
The project raises awareness of geospatial education, informing politicians of the significance of digital earth tools and technologies. digital-earth.eu also establishes a teacher support network infrastructure which incorporates geo-services for teachers such as the use of ArcGIS Online for Organisations and the European Environment Agency EyeonEarth platform.