[OSGeo-Edu] Tracking a GIS Core Curriculum

[Ian Turton]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com> wrote:
> Tyler and Charlie,
>
> I agree with Charlie, our focus shouldn't be on creating yet another GIS
> curriculum. Our efforts should focus on how we integrate open source
> software into an existing curriculum. How can open source software be
> used for existing GIS curriculum classes? What new classes focused on
> open source GIS might be added to an existing curriculum?

It is very hard to add new classes to the curriculum here (Penn State)
but modifying existing courses to use foss is much easier.

> I would love to see a web site that schools could use to download
> courses for their own use. The best part about having OSGEO spearhead
> this effort is the person downloading the course could download the
> software to use with the course too!

The only issue is that the versions of the software change to fast
(often twice during a ten week term)

> I'm particularly interested in developing material for the community
> college system and working professionals that want to do a program of
> self-study. If there is some interest in offering this type of course
> material via OSGEO, I would like to be involved in developing material
> for this particular audience. I can get a hold of my surveying professor
> in Montana, as he might serve as a test bed for some of our initial
> work.


See http://open.ems.psu.edu/courseware to get you started - full
courses in most cases with only the actual instructor interaction
missing (we have to get our $1200 for something)

-- 
Ian Turton

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