This volume uniquely links educational theories and the practice of GIScience in higher education contexts to guide classroom practice, present effective practical implementations from peers, and provide resources and strategies for effective teaching methods. The book offers a comprehensive exploration of GIScience education, including current trends and future educational needs in GIScience, and will act as a resource to prepare learners for a world that demands more intensive investment in present-day education and technological literacy. Additionally, the indirect benefit of merging the fragmented literature on GIScience literacy will provide a basis to examine common techniques and enable a new wave of research more rooted in learning theories. In ten chapters, the book is designed to attract an audience from geographic information systems science, geomatics, spatial information science, cartography, information technology, and educational technology as focus disciplines.

Chapter1: Teaching and learning pedagogies in higher education geographic information science.- Chapter2: The evolution and definition of geospatial literacy.- Chapter3: Enabling scientific research skills in undergraduate students during a spatial modeling course.- Chapter4: The AMETHYST program: The NSERC create experience.- Chapter5: "The map is not the territory": Adding value to technical GIS education.- Chapter6: Using an online format to teach graduate-level remote sensing basics.- Chapter7: WebGIS in development: From research and teaching perspectives.- Chapter8: Neogeography: Rethinking participatory mapping and place-based learning in the geoweb age.- Chapter9: Navigating employment prospects for new graduates in the geospatial sciences.- Chapter10: Epilogue: Future of convergence and crisis