3 Esri Academy Trainings to Get Students Talking about Trending Topics

[HannahOlpinski]

What is trending and popular at this current moment? If you asked your students, they would most likely say some song they heard on TikTok, or the newest Netflix show to binge.

As an educator, you want them to say spatial analysis, ArcGIS, geo apps, conveying data in a consumable fashion, or something along those lines. Luckily for you, you can get your students to understand and know what is trending with Esri Academy.

Below are three great training options you can partake in, infuse into your lesson plans, or just share with your students to invigorate their GIS and ArcGIS learning:

Make an Impact with Modern Geo Apps massive open online course (MOOC) opens on April 9. Over the course of four weeks, you will learn how to use four different geo apps and see how you can turn data into immersive app experiences that feature dynamic GIS capabilities and content. The best part is that all of this requires ZERO coding and is free!

Esri Academy’s next live training seminar is ArcGIS Drone2Map Essentials on May 1. Offered at both 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Pacific time, this live seminar will provide an overview of the latest ArcGIS Drone2Map capabilities and workflows. Esri experts will perform live demonstrations and answer questions from the audience during both sessions.
 

• Check out the Power Data Driven-Decisions with ArcGIS Dashboards training seminar recording (held live on March 20, 2025). It is free to view with an ArcGIS Online account through April 20, 2025.

Free Web Course: Getting Started with Spatial Analysis! Taking roughly one hour to complete, you will explore how the six categories of spatial analysis can help you answer geographic questions. You will even be introduced so some spatial analysis workflows. This is an in-demand skill that employers are looking for.

As an educator, you can seamlessly integrate these trainings into your existing academic programs, giving you ready-to-use materials for teaching GIS fundamentals and advanced concepts, or you can just use them as a way to give students more ways to learn and grow both their skillsets and resumes as they look to join the workforce. Either way, they should begin to understand what is trending in the world of GIS.