[Ica-osgeo-labs] Urban Science - City Analytics - NEW IDEA

[Charles Schweik]

One other thing on this thread folks - my colleague Sasha reminded me of
this:
Should we consider trying  to partner with IBM (always a supporter of open
source I think)?

See http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/

Cheers,
Charlie

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
> wrote:

> Hi Urban Science working group:
>
> 1) Great to see the edits/additions on the wiki [1]. Keep them coming.
>
> 2) I have an idea. (sorry for a long note, but I don't want to add this to
> the wiki, at least yet).
>
> I have added my colleague, Alexander 'Sasha' Stepanov to this email
> thread. He is the 'GIS Architect' for our university campus. Sasha and I
> have had an idea of offering a different type of advanced GIS course for
> students that follows new pedagogies: "flipped" (uses online open access
> information read outside of class), team-based learning, and service
> learning.
>
> Sasha's enterprise GIS for our campus is amazing. He has been emphasizing
> to me that it is a "small city" and there is an opportunity for students to
> do projects working with him on different "city management" GIS
> applications. For example, last semester we had two students do campus GIS
> projects on Tree Management, and also Recycling Management. (this was using
> ESRI technologies).
>
> What I am wondering is how many others on this thread are at universities
> that are using GIS to manage their campuses.
>
> If there are some, I wonder about the idea of an educational grant
> proposal to support our network that would:
>
> 1) Establish "City Analytics" systems to support our campuses;
> 2) Develop parallel "flipped, Team Based learning, Service learning"
> classes run at the same time/semester across a network of campuses;
> 3) Include some webinars that all our classes would attend;
> 4) Build together a MOOC with open educational material that we would all
> use and share in these courses.
> 5) We could test the learning of people just doing the MOOC versus the
> MOOC and service learning as a research question.
>
> Reactions? Anyone working at a university campus who would be interested
> in these ideas?
>
> Charlie
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
>



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Charlie Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
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