Education Blog

A new article that three professors from James Madison University and I co-authored in the Journal of the Decision Sciences Institute examines why and how location analytics can be effectively used in education.

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Working with configurable apps in your courses can be a great way to help students learn to translate business needs into GIS apps and gain modern GIS skills.

Deep learning enables us to identify patterns and insights from data that were once difficult to detect with traditional methods. The Esri education team recently conducted a webinar on the topic of “Unlocking the Power of Deep Learning Applications Using ArcGIS.  This blog provides links to the resources.

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Scripting and modelling play a crucial role in the spatial data science framework and are essential skills in any data science-related courses. ArcGIS Notebooks provide a seamless way to work with Python code and spatial data from within ArcGIS platform.  It is a tool for GIS professionals, data scientists, and developers who want to work with geospatial data in a collaborative and interactive environment.

The Critical Approaches to Place: Teaching Narrative Mapping project from New Mexico State University in southern New Mexico brings GIS to an expanded array of disciplines.  This article explains why and how faculty integrated GIS into research and instruction, particularly in the arts and humanities.  

In this essay and video, let's examine an oft-heard question from students, "Is my map right"?   Let's explore some valid responses to this question that enables students to think about what "right" actually means, and also what would be better questions to ask.

Scale is an important topic not only in teaching GIS, but in geography, economics, mathematics, environmental science, planning, business, and many other disciplines.  Scale is a cross-cutting theme that enables better understanding of change across space and across time, and the phenomena that cause those changes. This essay features 4 different ways to teach about map scale.  Each way uses easy-to-use tools and maps in ArcGIS Online, requires no sign-in, and yet each is powerful in teaching this concept in hands-on mode!

To help understand where GIS (and geospatial keywords) can be found in K12 curriculum standards, we wrote a small program that harvested the 3,000+ state standards documents and scanned the content for the use of geospatial language. We looked for words like GIS, geospatial, spatial, geographic information, and global positioning.