[OSGeo-Edu] OSGeo in academia courses

Daniel Ames dan.ames at isu.edu
Sat Aug 28 16:22:36 EDT 2010


Hi Helena,

At Idaho State University we now have 3 courses that use Open Source GIS:

Geol 5599 Web Mapping - OGC Standards, MapServer, OpenLayers
Geol 6628 Advanced GIS Programming - MapWindow GIS Components
Geol 6648 Open Source GIS - QGIS, MapWindow, GRASS, GVSIG

- Dan

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Helena Mitasova
<hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:
> As you probably already know I will be talking about FOSS4G in academia
> at a plenary in Barcelona. The talk is shorter (15min) than a regular
> presentation but I am sure the slides will be available on-line.
> Therefore, I would like to make the material more representative
> of the broader FOSS4G academic community by including links to programs
> that offer full semester courses with significant
> FOSS4G component so that people interested in FOSS4G education can look them up.
>
> If you would like to have your program or course included on the plenary
> talk slide please email me a link and a title of the course/program.
> We can post this information on the OSGEo Edu website too.
> I have in mind courses that are offered as part of regular curricula
> (as required or electives) or at least are offered on a regular basis.
>
> In addition to NCSU, ASU and Milan I have so far found the folllowing
> (based on OSGEo edu materials, recent conferences and personal contacts):
> Penn State : Open Web Mapping MS GIS elective,(Ian Turton will be there and has a talk)
> Toronto: 20 years GIS analysis courses with GRASS (Doc Robinson)
> UCDavis Intro to GIS: QGIS, GRASS, R
> University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Intro to spatial technology undergrad with QGIS (Charlie you are comming I guess)
> Cleveland State university: Advanced GIS with PostGIS, QGIS, Openlayers
> ASU GeoDa Spatial statistics for economic development
>
> I am sure there is more.
>
> thank you,
>
> Helena
>
> Helena Mitasova
> Associate Professor
> Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
> North Carolina State University
> Raleigh, NC 27695
> hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu
>
>
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Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D. PE
Associate Professor, Geosciences
Idaho State University - Idaho Falls
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