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

[Andy Anderson]

Because this is for a geospatial technology course and not a geography course, perhaps the following would be a better learning objective:

“Students should be able to explain projections, choose an appropriate one for making a thematic map, and visually demonstrate its advantage.”

Software agnostic, but by “demonstrating” there is implied use of some software to actually make a map. Or paper, ruler, and compass, if they prefer :-)

— Andy

On Jun 12, 2015, at 11:14 AM, Anthony Robinson <acr181 at psu.edu> wrote:

> Sergio,
> 
> What I am trying to suggest here is that it is not going to be appropriate 
> in the context of designing learning objectives for an introductory course 
> on GIS&T to lay out software requirements. 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).”
> 
> The latter will always be restrictive for educators, no matter how you 
> qualify it. Learning objectives are not the place to define software 
> platforms for use, unless the class you’re building is strictly focused on 
> software training (e.g. it’s not education per se, but technical training 
> instead).