Education Blog

Join Esri staff in Tempe for the 2025 meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education.  In addition to hosting an exhibit, Esri will be leading several workshops.

Register to attend this webinar on October 2, 2024 | 4:00–5:00 p.m. (PDT), to learn how to help increase students’ job readiness by building their professional GIS skills.

While map layouts (exported as PDFs, JPEGs, etc.) are fantastic – they are really just updated paper maps. They are ‘static’ representations of a specific time and place. When we have students place static maps into a StoryMap… they are just creating ‘new’ PPT presentations. Are they digital? Of course! But we can do a lot better when it comes to teaching about and guiding students on HOW presenting spatial information has changed.

Of all of the activities I have created, tested, and used with students over the years, one seems to be often cited by students as memorable and impactful:  Asking students to create sketch maps of their childhood neighborhood.  In this essay and guidelines, I describe this activity with an encouragement for you to use it or your own modification of it in your own instruction.

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 August 2024 technical highlights and resources from Esri. It is a buffet-style list, so feel free to pick and choose the topics that interest you.

On November 20, 2024, the world will come together to celebrate the 25th anniversary of GIS Day, an international event that highlights the power of geographic information system (GIS) technology.

Your involvement is key to our collective effort in demonstrating the power of GIS. By working together, we can showcase how spatial data creates meaningful impacts across diverse sectors.

Here are resources and inspiration for hosting a GIS Day event and registering it.

Join our live webinar to discover how the combined power of ArcGIS Indoors, ArcGIS IPS and ArcGIS FieldMaps enable efficient and effective facility asset inspections and management.

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With recent updates to ArcGIS Pro licensing (specifically, the removal of Single Use/Concurrent Use SU/CU licenses from education agreements), there have been questions related to accessing ArcGIS Pro in an ‘offline’ environment.

There are a range of use cases and situations that we have heard from you and if we missed any, please add them into the comments, or just reach out to us.

Best Practices and Learning Resources for customers with Departmental License. 

Use these GIS resources in your K-12 instruction as you head back to the classroom this fall.