[Ica-osgeo-labs] Looking for Web-GIS syllabi

Alex Mandel aimandel at ucdavis.edu
Tue May 26 17:57:40 PDT 2015


Here's the course I did a few years ago.
https://smartsite.ucdavis.edu/x/8nPG4Y

If anyone wants more details let me know.

Thanks,
-- 
Alex Mandel, PhD

Geography Graduate Group
University of California, Davis
http://geography.ucdavis.edu


On 05/26/2015 02:01 PM, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote:
> Hi Charlie, hi Andy,
> 
> Last year I've started (but not finished) a web gis course, based on
> OSGeo Live.
> 
> My goal was to create a course that could be translated to different
> languages, and always using local data.
> 
> I've created http://mapmaking.info/ to setup the course. I've just
> created contents for chinese students, using chinese data (but I didn't
> had time to write it in mandarim, so it is still in english). Now I'm
> translating the course to portuguese, using data from Portugal.
> 
> My suggestion is to use administrative data for some global source like:
> * http://www.gadm.org/
> * http://gdem.ersdac.jspacesystems.or.jp/
> * OSM planet extracts
> 
> Every student would use the same technologies, the same algoritms, but
> using data that has some meaning for them. Those interested in teaching
> the course to a new community would have to translate the contents and
> to provide the equivalent datasets related with the community.
> 
> We already have tons of open source software available in different
> languagues and amazing data from all around the globe. It is time to
> create powerful contens "Think globally" adapted to local learning
> communities "act locally".
> 
> As a minor note, whenever possible, we should align our syllabus with
> the BoK, despite web gis being the weakest BoK topic.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jorge Gustavo
> 
> On 26-05-2015 17:37, Charles Schweik wrote:
>> Hello GeoForAll colleagues,
>>
>> Some colleague and I just received some funding to develop a new Web-GIS
>> course for Spring 2016, and this week we are working on a rough draft
>> syllabus as a requirement from the funder. We're in negotiation with the
>> funder on intellectual property rights, but we are confident that we
>> will be able to license the course open access under some Creative
>> Commons license. I also want to try and use this effort as a step
>> forward in our quest to build the content system and a 'new derivative
>> work' system.
>>
>> My request:
>> *
>> *
>> *If you have taught a Web-GIS class in the last few years and are
>> willing to share your syllabus with us*, or if you have relevant
>> materials you are willing to share, please let me know (and copy my
>> developer colleague, Andy Anderson, cc'd above). If we use anything,
>> we'd of course give you attribution!
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Charlie Schweik
>>
>> Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>> Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
>> Administration
>>
>>
>>
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> 
> J. Gustavo





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