[OSGeo-Announce] GeoForAll - Global Educator of the Year Award 2015

[Anne Ghisla]

On the occasion of Open Education Week 2015
http://www.openeducationweek.org/ , "Geo for All" community
http://www.geoforall.org would to like to thank all educators worldwide
who have made contributions to open education efforts and being good
global citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all.

We are very happy to announce the nominees for the GeoForAll - Global
Educator of the Year Award 2015. This is an opportunity for us to
thank  colleagues for their excellent contributions to Openness in
Education principles in the Geo domain.

Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received one
or more nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year
Award

In no particular order, the nominees are:


INDIVIDUALS

- Daniel Baldwin, Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica, for his
  course on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1]
- Phil Davis, DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing leadership and
  tireless efforts leading the creation of the GeoAcademy [2]
- Genovevea Laurente, Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi for
  the course “Sistemas de Información Geográfica con uso de datos
  abiertos orientado a la educación,” or in English, “Geographic
  Information Systems for Education using Open Data” [3]
- Kurt Menke, Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his
  Introduction to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed for
  Central New Mexico Community College [4]
- Sterling Quinn, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, for
  his course on “Open Web Mapping” [5]
- Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for his
  “PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6]


TEAMS

- Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw; UNEP/GRID Warsaw for
  their EduGIS Academy [7]
- Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for
  their Interactive Web Maps course [8]
- Shashi Shekhar and Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of
  Minnesota, USA for their Massive Open Online Course “From GPS and
  Google Maps to Spatial Computing” [9]
- Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain), Jeremy
  Morley (University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and
  Jorge Sanz (Prodevelop) for their GIS Open Source Summer School at
  the University of Girona in Spain [10]
- Ricardo Olivira, Raphael Moreno - FOSS4G lab, University of Colorado,
  Denver USA for their PostgreSQL/PostGIS course materials [11]
- Raquel Sosa, Rosario Casanova and Jorge Franco, for their gvSIG
  Educa/Batovi effort in Uruguay [12]
- Kurt Menke - Brids Eye View, Nate Jennings Urbandale Spatial, Jon Van
  Hoesen Green Mtn College, Rick Smith Texas A&M, and Phil Davis,
  Delmar College (all in USA) for their GeoAcademy development efforts
  [13]

All of these individuals and teams should be celebrated for their
efforts. Just being nominated is an honour.

The award committee now has the very difficult task of selecting the
GeoForAll Educator of the Year [14] out of this well deserving list of
nominees. This year’s selections (possibly an individual and a team
award) will be announced at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe "Open Innovation
for Europe" conference at Como, Italy in July . Details at
http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/

Congratulations again to all the nominees and we encourage you to list
this nomination honour in your CVs.

Happy Open Education Week 2015 everyone.

Sincerely,

Prof. Charlie Schweik,  on behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award



Selection Committee:

Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)
Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)
Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli (Italy)
Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA)
Dr. Luciene Delazari (Brazil)
Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu (Malaysia)
Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil)
Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands)
Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa)
Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA)
Anne Ghisla (Germany)
Patrick Hogan (USA)
Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India)



REFERENCES

[1]
https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view
[2] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/ [3]
http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81 [4]
http://catalog.cnm.edu/ [5] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog585/ 

[6] http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/
[7] http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide
[8] http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/Webmaps.html
[9] https://www.coursera.org/course/spatialcomputing
[10] http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
[11] http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/training/tutorials
[12]
https://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/January_2013/gvsig_batovi_an_educational_gis.pdf
[13] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com [14]
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Global_Educator_of_the_Year_Award_2015
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