Education Blog

We are excited to announce the 2023 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition on Earth Day. The competition opens July 10th, but you can get a head start.

Watch the webinar recording  Teaching Spatial Data Science with ArcGIS Notebooks to:

• Learn how to use ArcGIS Notebooks as tools for teaching Python scripting and managing your course contents
• Learn best practices for performing spatial data science workflows within ArcGIS Notebooks
• Get resources to start using ArcGIS Notebooks for your teaching.

Experience Builder recently (in the last release) included the ability to have a few different URL parameters. Honestly – URL parameters are nothing that I have used… but I’ve found that they can be really valuable to provide a targeted way to drive viewers to a specific feature or location.

ArcGIS Insights  is analysis software that fuses location analytics with open data science and business intelligence workflows. It provides tools for geo-visualization and analytics to get a better understanding of your data.  

Demographic data are foundational for GIS users in many disciplines, including geography, urban planning, health, and business, among others.  Esri provides a variety of demographic and consumer data in GIS-friendly formats and the 2022 Esri Demographics are now available in Education Program licenses. With 2020 Census releases delayed, the 2022 Esri Demographics are particularly useful for understanding population dynamics since 2010.

The Esri education team hosted the webinar Gain More Insight Through Spatial Data Science and Geovisual Analytics in Education on November 3. Watch the recording  to learn hot to incorporate geovisualization analytics into your courses.

Esri recently released the SDG Geospatial Learning Lab website which offers various resources on how to use ArcGIS applications to act on the 17 SDG objectives These readily available resources are free to use for all. 

While adding 3D buildings from OpenStreetMap is an incredible tool for adding contextual data to your web scene, not all "buildings" are reasonably represented.  Consider non-standard objects in the built environment: monuments, ships, even baseball stadiums are not currently represented well.

We're popping apart the ArcGIS VR 360 datafile and exploring!

Convert your ArcGIS Online Scene content to ArcGIS 360 VR to a virtual tour.  Alternatively, add your 360°  image to an ArcGIS 360 VR app.

Watch the webinar recording Integrating Spatial Data Science into Your Course Content that took place on Monday, May 2, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. (PDT) and learn about resources to incorporate spatial data science into your teaching.