Education Blog

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.

Important updates to the Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM) document have just been published by the US Department of Labor.  This article summarizes the updates and reminds the reader what the GTCM is and why it is important to the GIS education community.

Watch this webinar to learn about Site Scan for ArcGIS, the end-to-end, cloud-based drone mapping software designed to revolutionize imagery data collection, processing, and analysis. With this software as a service (SaaS) product, you can easily collaborate with your students and peers in a connected online environment and manage your data without expensive infrastructure.