[Ica-osgeo-labs] Open GIS Academics and educators please apply to AAG call before June 15th, 2015

[Charles Schweik]

+1...

I am starting to develop a web-GIS class with some colleagues and it is my
hope that we can separate out conceptual/theoretical from
technology-explicit content. It is interesting to try and thing of what the
pure learning objectives are in this area. If anyone has ideas on this let
me know off-thread...

Perhaps obvious, but the separation of conceptual and tech training
examples s is important for OSGeo too, for, for example, there are multiple
desktop packages.

Cheers,
Charlie



On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On 13/06/2015 1:14 am, Anthony Robinson wrote:
>
>> So what I mean is that the
>> learning objectives should be pure learning objectives. For example:
>>
>> YES to “Students should be able to explain projections and choose an
>> appropriate one for making a thematic map.”
>>
>> NO to “Students should be able to explain projections and choose an
>> appropriate one for making a thematic map using QGIS (or ArcGIS Online, or
>> whatever).”
>>
>
> +1 to this explanation Anthony.
>
> Once learning objectives have been created, it will make it much easier to
> develop relevant training courses for specific products, which can
> reference back to the training objectives.
>
> And if the development of base course material is set up along similar
> collaborative principles to Open Source development, then the relatively
> high effort of maintaining training material could be absorbed by the
> product's community (probably through a combination of developers, users
> and trainers).
>
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