[OSGeo-Edu] Re: OEGEO Logo

[watry at steam.coaps.fsu.edu]

Quoting Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at tkk.fi>:

> My comments/questions on this:
>
> - I have a similar tutorial PDF from you for QGIS,
----- it is intended that the tutorials should bre as identical as 
possible-----

> both look from surface good for the purpose of an hands-on course, 
> perhaps also for self-learning (I'll try to get a student(s) of ours 
> to use them, then I
> can perhaps say more).
----- This course is intnded to be self paced, distant learning with 
classroom instructor help to subliment it. Idaho state University is 
looking into taking several tutorials and making it a lab course for 
credit.-----

> You shoud add the metadata to the tutorials: your name, copyright etc 
> (this is important!).
-----Will do so. There is no copywright at this point, after all it is 
open source.-----

> You should also consider submitting them to the OSGeo library and/or  
>  submitting them into community development as OSGeo books.
-----Okay, at some point-----

> Did you inform MapWindow and QGIS people about the tutorial books? By 
> the way,
> Puneet et al, how would the layout & content (images, colors, fonts) 
> of this > book work in the proposed wiki platform?
-----I have recieved permission from each of the software developers 
prior to usng their software and worked with them while writing on 
their software and then several have used the tutorials at the end for 
their benefit. -----

> - I assume this is mostly a computer classroom course, where all
> students use their own computer?
----- Self paced distant learning so that the student can complete the 
course wherever thye have access to a computer-----

> How does a typical class go, are they more independently paced or 
> more mimicking the instructor?
----- Each week the student is sent a portion of the tutorial with 5-10 
questions to answer from their computer work.-----

> What is the instructor/nr of students ratio?
-----not applicable as it is a distant learning course-----

> How many hours of instruction?
-----about 10-30 hours per tutorial-----

> Are there any homeworks, exams?
-----About 30-40 questions for them to submit per tutorial-----

> How do you check "completed to satisfaction"?
-----I get all the tutorial questions answered and submitted back to me -----

> - Regarding the certificates: it would feel more natural to me to have
> the organization offering the instruction to be on the top of the
> certificate, i.e., the certificate is given by it and not by OSGeo.
-----okay, can I use the logo in the corner----- Where the software has 
an extablished logo like Quatnum GIS, I will put that logo on the other 
corner-----

> Also > I'd expect a bit more metadata: how large the course is (hours again)
> etc.
----- see above, but about 40-120 total for the course-----

> I'd have OSGeo mentioned as we are now discussing: "An OSGeo 
> recognized course".
----- Okay, that goes with the use of the OSGEO Logo-----

> If you are mentioning specific software like UDig or MapWindow, then 
> equally important would be a recognition of the course from the 
> developers of the software.
----- this is already being done by some of the developers-----

>
> Thank you very much for your commitment and work on the tutorials,
>
> Ari
>


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