[OSGeo-Edu] Our past discussions about curriculum collaboration

[Kim Tucker]

Hi Charlie and all,

You may be interested in the OER Foundation:

http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home

and the free on-line courses available to all your collaborators:
http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content

The next course is from August 25 - September 8, 2010 (10-Days, 20
minutes per day):
http://wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Registration
Indeed, during the course you could make a start on your curriculum.

A similar collaborative writing effort was done a few years back to
produce the OER Handbook for Educators:
http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator

The above approach is compatible with our own (compatibly licensed) wiki:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Core_Curriculum_Project

In terms of process, here is an example where we used an issue tracker
template (and other MediaWiki features) to write a document
collaboratively:
http://wikieducator.org/Workgroup:Amendments_to_Open_Community_Governance_Policy/Issue_Tracker

Have fun (whatever approach you choose :-)

Kim

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On 16 August 2010 18:20, 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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