Education Blog

ArcGIS StoryMaps are here to stay and continue to be made even better. However, some of their relatives are heading out: StoryMaps.com and Classic Esri Story Maps.

Summer is the perfect time to relax and recharge your teaching toolkit. Discover fun, flexible courses on Esri Academy that help you bring real-world data, interactive maps, and student-driven inquiry into your classroom

Teaching middle school Earth Science or Geography? Then take a look at this new collection of standards-based activities that provide an interactive and engaging way for your students to learn about the world.

Esri Imagery and remote Sensing Educators Summit is an annual event hosted virtually by Esri Education team, in collaboration with other teams at Esri and academic partners.  This year, it was taken place on May 14-15, 2025.

We featured inspiring panels, lightning talks, and the latest technology updates at the event.

Here are links to the teaching and learning resources we presented.

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Now it is easier than ever to find a classroom activity that incorporates digital maps. Introducing the Classroom activities gallery.

As ArcGIS Online usage grows across educational institutions, an increasing number of Named User licenses is required. Since the number of Named Users is not unlimited, Education customers need to proactively manage their quota of named users.

With the cyclical nature of incoming and graduating students, it is important to think about governance standards related to Named Users, including offboarding of graduating students. This blog focuses on options and considerations for deleting users, and communicating offboarding procedures.  

Congratulations to all Esri Innovation Program (EIP) Students of the Year for their wonderful work. See projects here. 

Esri consistently releases new contents, updates, and resources related to their products, solutions, apps, and applications, as well as best practices, success stories, recorded webinars, and more. Although these resources are posted in various locations, they can be difficult to find.

This blog provides a comprehensive list of all the April 2025 technical highlights and resources from Esri. It is a buffet-style list, so feel free to pick and choose the topics that interest you.

Since the initial release of GeoInquiries in 2014, millions of students have experienced how GIS can bring a new, spatial perspective to many different subject areas. By all pedagogical accounts, this program with its curriculum-first design was very successful.