[OSGeo-Edu] Our past discussions about curriculum collaboration

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi OSGeo folks,

This is related to Group ToDo #7 on our wiki todo page [1] -- 
Collaborative curriculum planning...

I've been thinking about our past discussions on how we can make some 
progress around some kind of coordinated educational curriculum effort. 
You may recall we were talking last year about using AAG's GIS&T's Body 
of Knowledge as an organizing framework, and I actually got permission 
from them to use it. More recently, I've discovered that it isn't open 
access which deters me from using it. Since then I've discovered the 
Geospatial Technology Competency Model developed by the U.S. Dept of 
Labor [2].

One way we might do this is to try and organize full courses some of us 
have developed or are developing that are relevant to OS geospatial 
education. And one way we could market these courses more is if we as a 
group [OSGeo edu] considered joining the Open Course Ware Consortium as 
a non-profit affiliate member [3]. What I don't like about this option 
is that it would require an annual fee of $500 to do this, and it might 
be complicated for course developers in our group who have institutional 
copyright issues. But I think this might be one way to start organizing 
our individual curriculum and sharing that, in addition to our efforts 
to share educational material we are writing.

Questions:

1) Should we try to start inventorying and organizing our individual 
courses in a similar way we are inventorying educational content?
2) Do people think the OCWare Consortium is something we should look 
into further?
and an outstanding question from a previous email:
3) Did anyone want to take on leading an effort to develop an edited 
volume/handbook of OS Desktop GIS and/or on OS web GIS as Venka 
suggested in our IRC? (Thanks to Ned Horning for volunteering to try and 
lead the ongoing educational content inventory effort).

Cheers
Charlie

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Edu_goals_and_to_dos
[2] http://tinyurl.com/3528ks8
[3] http://www.ocwconsortium.org/members/howtojoin

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