[Ica-osgeo-labs] "Geo for All Educator of the Year"

Tue Feb 24 06:04:43 PST 2015

Hi,

[Catching up on emails after a long travel period]

Suchith has done a nice job getting this started and a nominationstructure.
I am receiving nominations as we speak and am building a .

*But if there is a possible educator you want to nominate but doesn't fit
the current nominationstructure, please send the nomination anyway,
describing their contributions and why you think they are deserving of this
first awar Err on the side of more information than less. *

I will be starting a separate thread on this with the award committee, but
I am going to suggest that we ask people nominated to write a short text
about what they do and why from their perspective which will also be part
of the documentation for the committee to consider. Plus, just us notifying
people that they have just being nominated is an honor that might help some
educators as they build their CV.

Cheers
Charlie Schweik

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> This is the first time we are doing this, so it is learning exercise. But
> the basic idea is to thank  all educators who contribute to Openness in
> GeoEducation and in whichever levels (from school teachers to university
> professors) and all disciplines (from forestry to civil engineering) and
> different languages  and medium . Hence we decided to name this "Geo for
> All Educator of the Year" but it will celebrate and thank all educators who
> are nominated for their contributions to Openness in GeoEducation.
>
> So we cannot have a fully prescriptive guidelines for all
> types/levels/mediums but we will adopt a holistic approach and use Antoni
> Pérez Navarro  list of essential information as background information and
> having a diverse set of people in the judging panel will help us. We will
> refine this in the future based on the lessons we learn this year. Also it
> is aimed also to promote the global Open Education Week activities in March.
>
> From my humble experience, i have learned that you cannot wait for
> everything to be in place to start any initiative. And the best example of
> that is "Geo for All" :)
>
> If you have specific ideas, please start putting together those guidelines
> and we will work with Charlie (who is the chair) to finalise the criteria.
>
> So let us all work together to refine ideas and learn and make it better
> as we go.
>
> Suchith
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Hogan, Patrick
> (ARC-PX) [patrick.hogan at nasa.gov]
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 8:01 PM
> To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Award for GIS Course/Teacher Confusion
>
> Dear Good OSGEO Gentlefolks,
>
> Howdy! I am confused. Teacher Award, GIS Course Award? What is it?
>
> I believe we are well resolved on the GIS students award! The student
> award is not an OSGEO judging exercise. This is donated award money going
> to other efforts with formal judging criteria in place. OSGEO is simply
> increasing the attractiveness of those established award processes with
> award money. Yay!
>
> But the OSGEO GIS Teacher or GIS Course award? Are these one and the same?
> And we’ll need more guidance for how to judge this and the information
> needed for the nomination process please.
> Example of criteria:
> http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/challenge2014 (ignore the year)
> Problem 1: What is the title of this award? It has been referred to in
> multiple ways:
> - GeoforAll Educator of the Year
> - Open Education Award
> - Teacher Award
> - Educators who have created GIS courses
> - Geospatial course ( online or class based) based on Open Principles
> - Openness in GeoEducation
>
> Problem 2: Is this award for the best GIS course or the best GIS teacher?
>
> Whether they are the same or different, what are the criteria?
> I see a well-designed course and its online syllabus a result of a teacher
> or a department, students and teaching assistants (TA). But one individual
> (teacher or TA) must take responsibility for that for this award to
> proceed. Ergo, the “GeoforAll Educator of the Year" or whatever we are
> calling it. The only trouble with this is that a great syllabus and content
> does not define a great teacher. That is a combination of inspiration,
> talented guidance and successful students. If the award is for the combined
> effect of GIS course and GIS teaching, we will need to have more
> information. Evaluation of a GIS course is technical, evaluation of a GIS
> teacher seems more an organic art.
>
> Antoni Pérez Navarro has put forth this list, and it is a good list of
> essential information, but, except for the link to course materials, there
> is no way to evaluate the ‘teacher’ part, and the effectiveness of the
> course.
> + Title in English
> + Original title
> + Language taught in
> + ECTS credits/Hours
> + Number of classes taught per year
> + Average Number of students per class
> + Interface: Virtual, classroom, blended
> + Target audience (professionals, technical students, grade school, high
> school, university, embedded in a wider program, etc.)
> + Goal (maximum 150 words): what is the goal of this course in its
> socio-economical context and why the course was created?
> + Contents
> + Links to course, materials, contents, etc.
>
> Possible guidance, the GIS CERTIFICATION: Syllabus
>
> http://www.aicanet.it/aica/ecdl-gis/la-certificazione/syllabus/GIS_syllabus_ECDL_F_endorsed.pdf
>
> The first time is always a painful learning experience! It does get
> better! We hope!
>
> -Patrick
>
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