I've been involved with the OS in numerous ways over the years: as a GetOutside Champion, author of support resources for Digimap for Schools and Digimap for Colleges / Mapstream. Also as an author of articles for Mapping News and other support for various campaigns and activities.
For many years Ordnance Survey has delivered support for education to encourage the awareness and use of high-quality geospatial data in the education sector and since 2020 this has been through an Education Plan, funded through the UK Government's Geospatial Commission (GC).
They are keen to gather evidence about how this has so far supported the work of teachers and consider what more they could be doing in this area.
For many years Ordnance Survey has delivered support for education to encourage the awareness and use of high-quality geospatial data in the education sector and since 2020 this has been through an Education Plan, funded through the UK Government's Geospatial Commission (GC).
They are keen to gather evidence about how this has so far supported the work of teachers and consider what more they could be doing in this area.
They would also like to understand what other training tools geography teachers currently access and the barriers that may be in place when using geographic information systems (GIS).
They are asking for 15 minutes (or so) of your time to complete a short survey.
They are asking for 15 minutes (or so) of your time to complete a short survey.
The survey is open to all geography teachers until Friday 8 December and the findings from it will help them to consider how to develop the Education Plan.
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