Education Blog

Review reminders and resources for upcoming licensing changes. Join us for GIS Admins Community Meeting Q&A session - meant to answer questions, hear comments, learn from each other, interact as a community.

Effective June 2024, Esri is updating the user type model to simplify access and administration of capabilities and apps.   Learn what these changes mean for Education customers. 

Last year Esri introduced a certification exam that’s appropriate for teachers and high school students with 150+ hours of training in GIS. To keep the exam current, it is regularly reviewed and updated. You’ll find a new version available with some key updates.

I have been asked to share all of my workshops and presentations from the 2024 AAG American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, covering a variety of topics and themes, which I am happy to do, here. 

I have written a fundamentals of mapping and GIS in the Fourth Edition of Key Methods of Geography textbook, published by Sage Publications.  If you are seeking a single chapter about what GIS is and why it matters, this might very well fit that need.  Beyond my chapter, the book contains a great deal of pertinent content about, as the title indicates, key core methods essential for the geographic sciences, including field data collection equipment and methods, statistical analysis, spatial analysis, remote sensing, and much more. 

Esri recently launched Maps.com, a website showcasing the maps that are helping people better understand the World.

February 2024 update of ArcGIS Online brings lots of exciting new Features.  To assist you in getting up to speed with the new features, here are the key highlights from this update:

Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs exist in nearly every school district in the United States.  Their primary purpose? Prepare kids for careers.

This essay discusses how Diversity Equity and Inclusion themes can be effectively taught with GIS in a faculty professional development institute, using an example of a four-day institute.  This essay was written in the hopes that the resources shared will be useful for others seeking to infuse DEI topics into their own research and teaching.

Launched on GIS Day, National Geographic MapMaker is a new free mapping solution for schools from Esri and National Geographic Society.