[OSGeo-Edu] [OSGeo-Discuss] Maps and the Geospatial Revolution from Jul 17th 2013 at Coursera

Wed Sep 4 09:33:06 PDT 2013

Hi. I need to say that the Maps and the Geospatial Revolution MOOC was really a huge success: more than 47,000 signed up, and over 34,000 participated (impressive numbers indeed). I want to congratulate Anthony Robinson and his team for a really wonderful course. In the forums one of the most active threads had to do with the use of Open Source GIS for future MOOCs and one can conclude that there is really great potential for the use of FOSS in MOOCs about GIS. So in my (humble) opinion there is a need to work in developing educational tools in this sense (ESRI products were used in the Coursera case, but a lot of students disagreed with this).
Regards,

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Sección Sistemas de Información Geográfica
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY

----- Mensaje original -----
De: "Suchith Anand" <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Para: "Mr. Puneet Kishor" <punk.kish at gmail.com>, "edu discuss" <edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, "Luis E. Bermudez (lbermudez at opengeospatial.org)" <lbermudez at opengeospatial.org>
CC: "Anthony C Robinson" <acr181 at psu.edu>
Enviados: Miércoles, 4 de Septiembre 2013 8:23:27
Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] [OSGeo-Discuss] Maps and the Geospatial Revolution from Jul 17th 2013 at Coursera

Thanks Puneet. Excellent inputs. I am adding Luis (OGC) as it will be good to include Open Standards into the holistic open education program. He is already working on OGC Schools at Github which is really good.

It will be excellent to have your expertise in Creative Commons for this so we can make sure all learning materails developed is available for all.

Suchith

-----Original Message-----
From: Mr. Puneet Kishor [mailto:punk.kish at gmail.com] 
Sent: 04 September 2013 12:09
To: edu_discuss at lists.osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions
Cc: Cameron Shorter; Suchith Anand; Anthony C Robinson
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Maps and the Geospatial Revolution from Jul 17th 2013 at Coursera

Snipped a bunch of the email below for brevity --

On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:18 AM, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

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> It will be very helpful, if you can share your ideas and experiences to OSGeo Edu community so we can think of ideas for MOOC program entirely using OSGeo Software for the future.
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> On 30/06/13 03:20, ANTHONY C ROBINSON wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
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> I'm aware of some OS community angst about my selection of AGOL for doing most of the labs in the course. 
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Seems like I missed the start of this discussion, but am really glad to pitch in now. A geospatial MOOC completely based on both open software as well as open data would make for a perfect trifecta of completely open educational materials. Kudos.

At Creative Commons we have particular interest in MOOCs, not only for the potential they hold for open and inclusive education, but also for potentially revolutionizing education itself. That potential is currently limited by the restrictive licensing many of the MOOCs adopt. A completely open MOOC licensed under a CC BY or a CC BY-SA license would not only fulfill its educational mission, it would also allow others to take the educational material and remix and repurpose it further.

Please keep the above points in mind when having a conversation about MOOCs. I would be happy to assist where appropriate.

Many thanks,

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Puneet Kishor
Policy Coordinator for Science and Data
Creative Commons

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