[OSGeo-Edu] Our past discussions about curriculum collaboration

[Daniel Ames]

The "lacking functionality" problem is definitely a challenge of this
approach. Of course this also presents an opportunity for project developers
to identify deficiencies that need work. In any case, I would really like to
see these desktop teaching materials get put together and will participate
with anyone who wants to work on writing them :) - Dan

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Ned Horning <nedh at lightlink.com> wrote:

>  Dan,
>
> A similar idea has popped up in the past to create something like the
> document "How Do I Do This in ArcGIS/Manifold?: Illustrating Classic GIS
> Tasks" (http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/165). I have
> considered starting something along these lines for remote sensing but never
> got my act together to get it started. One possible limitation of the
> exercise approach is that the same functionality might not be available in
> all of the packages so for some software it might not be possible to
> complete all of the exercises without tapping into other software for
> specific steps.
>
> Ned
>
>
> On 08/16/2010 12:50 PM, Daniel Ames wrote:
>
> Charlie et al,
>
>  On question #3 I'd love to see generic GIS lab exercises that can be
> executed in any number of desktop GIS tools. How could this be crafted?
> Maybe we come up with 10 exercises and we could write all the generic
> material define the format etc. then invite participants from each of the
> desktop GIS teams to edit it with their own screen captures and specifics.
> This would be totally cool because then we'd have 3 to 5 lab manuals that
> teach the identical material - each one using different software.  What do
> you (and others) think of this approach?
>
>  - Dan
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Charlie Schweik <
> cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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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