[OSGeo-Discuss] UN training material

Thu Apr 14 14:34:14 PDT 2016

I also view this as a teaching moment - sourcing existing material is fine
the trick is to ensure UN has workflow in place to contribute material as
part of our community (rather than simply focusing on how to use and teach
our software).
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:42 PM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Maria,
> I'd like to suggest that the second step in generating training material
> (after sourcing existing material) is to define a template and development
> process for UN Training material. The following list is based on what we
> have learned from building OSGeo-Live material.
>
> Considerations:
>
> * Structural Guidelines: What headings should be included. Should pictures
> be included, size of pictures, quality of pictures.
>
> * Writing guidelines: What voice to use? What level of detail to go into?
>
>
> * Translation guidelines: How should the documents be structured to allow
> easy translation? How do you know if a translation is up to date?
>
> * Storage guidelines: Should it be stored in git?
>
> * Maintenance guidelines: How often are the docs expected to be updated?
> How do you write documents such that they are timeless? How can people
> report errors or improvements in documentation? What is the plan for
> updating the documentation when an application is updated? How is this
> resourced?
>
>
> * License guidelines: What license should material be published under?
>
> * Target Audience: What level is the target audience?
>
> * Flow between courses: Assuming students will do multiple courses, how to
> you avoid overlap between courses? What are prerequisites or assumed
> knowledge before attempting a course. How will material trace back to a
> qualifications and learning goals? This leads to setting exams based on
> learning goals and material contents.
>
> * Editorial control: Assuming you crowd source some material, will you
> have an editor on staff to ensure guidelines are followed to maintain
> quality.
>
> * Distribution format: How is documentation, sample data, and software to
> be distributed to the classroom? Note, the course might be a MOOC and the
> student at home. OSGeo-Live might be one distribution format? Setting up on
> a cloud based virtual machine that people can log into is another.
>
> * ... Others might have further ideas for this list.
>
> --
>
> Once answers to the above have been defined, it will facilitate the OSGeo
> Community to maintain documentation very efficiently at a high level of
> quality. Should this list be added to the training material wiki?
>
>
> On 12/04/2016 5:30 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
> Thanks, I have added in a few links. We will need to watch this page as
> content is added - as new content is being added based on sometimes
> incomplete earlier examples. Thus far nobody has provided data references
> for example as requested.
>
> Maria is a point-of-contact needed? In what circumstances would contact be
> made?
>
> Bob - can I ask you to link to training material for GeoMOOSE? This wiki
> is gathering up training material for use in an open education context (so
> something that is free to be re-mixed into an academic course).
>
> Jeff - GeoNode has been added as a project - but also lacks education
> material, and a point of contact?
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 11 April 2016 at 08:51, Maria Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that could be repurposed...
>> Maria
>>
>>
>> Il 11/04/2016 17:26, Jody Garnett ha scritto:
>>
>> Any restrictions on license Maria? I understood this initiative was
>> trying to gather material that could be repurposed for open education use.
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 11 April 2016 at 03:36, Maria Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All
>>> as many of you know, OSGeo and G4A started a volunteer initiative for
>>> evaluating a possible migration of UN geospatial applications from
>>> proprietary to FOS S.
>>> I'm there the representative of G4A and I'm in charge of leading,
>>> together with Prof. Ki-Joune Li, the capacity building program of this UN
>>> OpenGIS Initiative.
>>> I'm kindly asking all of you, if you have short courses or workshops
>>> (for instance those held at FOSS4G Conferences) about
>>>
>>> QGIS, PostreSQL, PostGIS, Geoserver, OpenLayers, Geonode
>>>
>>> of referencing them at this wiki page
>>>
>>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining>*https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining
>>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining>
>>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UNTraining>*
>>> If you have any doubt please contact directly me or Ki-Joune.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> Best regards.
>>>
>>> Maria
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
>>> Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
>>> Politecnico di Milano
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
>> Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
>> Politecnico di Milano
>>
>> ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
>> Sol Katz Award 2015
>>
>> Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
>> Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
>> e-mail1: maria.brovelli at polimi.it
>> e-mail2: prorettrice at como.polimi.it
>>
>>
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