Excellent Thank you Marco! This would definitely fall under QGIS Certification, and this would be a set of self study training courses. For each course completed an have a smaller examination and certificate of completion. What I am envisioning is a group of courses that once completed would prepare a person for each certification level. I saw that the curricula is already defined for the entry level courses, is this correct and does anyone know where this is located?<br>
<br>-Thank you<br>John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Marco Bernasocchi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marco@bernawebdesign.ch" target="_blank">marco@bernawebdesign.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">HI John, di you see this [0]? goes in a similar direction.<br>
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ciao<br>
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[0] <a href="http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Certification" target="_blank">http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/<u></u>quantum-gis/Certification</a><div><div class="h5"><br>
On 05/01/2012 04:59 PM, John Ellis wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
Hi,<br>
<br>
I'm new to the list and after reading through some of the archives I<br>
don't believe that anyone else has started working on something like this.<br>
<br>
I have thought that a training program or set of classes would be an<br>
excellent addition to the QGIS Community. After reading through<br>
portions of the QGIS manual, I believe that this would be an excellent<br>
basis for developing an interactive curriculum that can continually be<br>
added to as new features and concepts become available, and mature.<br>
<br>
An excellent tool that is available for presenting curriculum is an open<br>
source and free web based platform called Moodle. I would like to<br>
volunteer to develop a basic curriculum based on the User Manual, and<br>
make this available for free to anyone that is interested. Eventually<br>
adding more advanced content containing a wide array of topics on GIS.<br>
Also providing Certificates of Completion for courses that can then be<br>
applied towards the educational component of the GISP certification. I<br>
know that there is a pretty steep learning curve for any GIS and I would<br>
like a way to ease QGIS users through the 220+ page user manual.<br>
<br>
I think that educating users in a structured, and accessible format is<br>
the best way to advance QGIS to take it's rightful place as an industry<br>
standard GIS application. Do you have any thoughts on this?<br>
<br>
--<br>
John Ellis<br>
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