[OSGeo-Edu] Tracking a GIS Core Curriculum

[Kim Tucker]

 > we need to have a solid SVN infrastructure to be
 > able to manage, update and collaborate on the
 > material,
 > I still haven't figured out the group support.

Or, you could simply use WikiEducator or WikiVersity (or cnx.org, etc.) 
and a mailing list for curriculum development. On Wikiversity and 
WikiEducator you can 'watch' pages you are co-editing, be e-mailed when 
changes are made, view page histories and roll back to previous 
versions, etc.

Perhaps set up a portal similar to this one:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Social_entrepreneurship/Curriculum
for GIS and progressively develop modules.

K

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Links possibly of interest to some (in case you have forgotten ;-):

http://cnx.org/content/m15128/latest/ - QGIS tutorial

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:FLOSS4Science

http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator

http://wikieducator.org/User:KTucker - my user page on WikiEducator.

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Helena Mitasova wrote:
> 
> On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 09:56 -0400, Charlie Schweik wrote:
>>> There is the NCGIS GIScience core curriculum here:
>>> http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/giscc/ (dated 2000).
>>> I haven't read the AAG book but it looks interesting.
>>>
>>> But I think our group should NOT try and duplicate these kinds of
>>> efforts. What I think we should focus on is *developing a core 
>>> curriculum
>>> for, perhaps, a "GIS Certificate in Open Source GIS*," to begin.
>>
>> Thanks Charlie,  The NCGIS curriculum was also in the dust at the back
>> of my mind.
>>
>> Just to make sure we're on the same page - I'm suggesting we build on
>> top of existing curricula by focusing on tutorials and lessons that
>> apply theory using open source GIS applications/tools but tied back
>> directly to aspects of these curricula.
>>
>> Are you suggesting that we build on top of these existing ones or start
>> from scratch with our own?
>>
>> I could see that a few modules in such a certificate for open source GIS
>> would require us to have some general "open source" focused teaching
>> that we might have to create, but can we still re-use existing component
>> from elsewhere, right?  At least as a framework for building our open
>> source specific teaching?
>>
>> My mental challenge here is that I could see that our curriculum would
>> be the same as any GIS certificate curriculum, only the labs and
>> applications would use open source tools.  Of course, it could also be
>> branded as an open source GIS certificate, but perhaps that's a fine
>> line at this point?  Are there other perspectives on this I'm missing?
>>
>>> I think this is a natural next step for our group, and as you suggest,
>>> we could potentially organize or link course material in our database to
>>> a curriculum
>>> structure we as a group come up with. -- I think this is a* great
>>> collaborative goal for this next year*.
>>
>> Maybe this answers my above questions.  Do these next steps make sense?
>>
>> 1. Review existing curriculum.
> 
> which one? There are general ones and each university program has its own
> 
> (e.g. here is what we have for MS in GIST
> http://www.gis.ncsu.edu/academic/programs/index.php -
> you can see that Open source is "trickling in", but we are a very open 
> source
> oriented school, to some extent because of RedHat  headquarters on campus)
> 
> We don't have any geography dept. so I can imagine that universities
> with geography department would have different curricula most of it 
> built around ArcGIS.
> Also there is a difference between undergrad and grad level curricula,
> as well as between GIS certificate, BS, minor, and masters degree.
> 
>> 2. Copying the structures from existing curricula as appropriate
>> (hopefully verbatim so educators can tie directly back)
> 
> see above
> 
>> 3. Identify holes that we'd need to fill (hopefully only a few)
> 
> that will depend on what curriculum you select -undergrads basics 
> curriculum
> would be certainly easier than grad level material.
> 
>> 4. Collate or create material for each section.
>> 5. Bundle it all up, etc...
> 
> we need to have a solid SVN infrastructure to be able to manage, update 
> and collaborate on the material,
> I still haven't figured out the group support.
> 
> Helena
>>
>> Thanks for discussion!
>>
>> Tyler
>>
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