[Ica-osgeo-labs] Paper about FOSS into geospatial education

[Charles Schweik]

Hi all,

This past email thread reveals our need to develop a better system of
sharing educational materials. Email posts are just too hard to track over
time. At FOSS4G EU in Como, Italy next month we intend to have some
discussion about this strategy.

In the meantime, if you have educational material you'd like to share or
let others know about, take a few minutes and add entries to the input form
at [1]. It feeds this searchable educational inventory metadatabase [2].

It would be nice to see some new 2015 entries!

Cheers, Charlie

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content
(Note: you have to log in to the OSGeo system to use it, otherwise you get
an 'Access Denied' message).

[2] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Thanks Patrick for this update on gvSIG as well.
>
> gvSIG has been very successfully used in Primary and Secondary school
> education through gvSIG Batovi in Uruguay etc.
>
> The key message from all this is there are many Open alternatives now
> available for educators to make use of as per their needs.
>
> The focus of Geo education should be on the Science and understanding of
> the geospatial concepts and principles NOT on any particular software only.
> Open Principles are key for enabling this.
>
> 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, June 21, 2015 9:49 PM
> To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] ica-osgeo-labs Digest, Vol 27, Issue 20
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> Howdy All!
> Might want to give gvSIG some thought as well,
> especially since they are incorporating Web World Wind [2] into their
> package.
> See the Europa Challenge project at the bottom of the page [3].
> QGIS may choose do this soon as well.
> [1] http://www.gvsig.com/en
> [2] http://webworldwind.org/
> [3] http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2015
>
> -Patrick
>
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> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Manning
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 1:25 PM
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> Hi Vaclav and Thomas,
> Sounds very interesting your discussion. I am working on the same but at
> secondary school level here in the UK. I am working with creating lesson
> materials to help with the teaching of geography (and therein geospatial
> skills) either using ArcGIS Online or QGIS. If I can help in anyway give
> me shout.
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
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>    1. Paper about FOSS into geospatial education (Vaclav Petras)
>    2. Re: Paper about FOSS into geospatial education (Mueller, Thomas)
>    3. Re: Paper about FOSS into geospatial education (Suchith Anand)
>    4. Re: Paper about FOSS into geospatial education (Mueller, Thomas)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 22:34:29 -0400
> From: Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
> To: ICA OSGeo Labs list <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Paper about FOSS into geospatial education
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> Dear all,
>
> I would like to let you know about an open access paper called
> *Integrating Free and Open Source Solutions into Geospatial Science
> Education* [1] which our group [2] published recently in a special issue of
> ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (thanks Suchith and other
> for organizing it).
>
> >From our experience, when teaching geospatial thinking and analysis,
> software is often or even always involved. However, students tend to mix
> the theory with software specifics. Our solution is to teach theory and
> general ideas in lectures and use two different software packages in labs.
> With this approach, students get hands-on practice while getting the idea
> what is general principle and what is specific to one or the other software
> package.
>
> Our flagship course is *Geospatial Analysis and Modeling* [3] and we use
> GRASS GIS and ArcGIS but the principle is obviously applicable to any
> course and any software. This modeling course is well-established and
> well-maintained since it runs every semester for several years already. The
> course material is licensed under CC BY-SA. You can find more information
> and more courses in the paper and on our website and I'll be happy to give
> you more details as well.
>
> In the paper, we focus on graduate education but we hope to apply similar
> principles in undergraduate education too. However, for introduction to
> geospatial sciences at earlier levels (including high schools and middle
> schools), OpenStreetMap seems to me like a very good option because
> students can do something which actually has local or humanitarian impact
> while having the opportunity to analyze the collected data later in the
> course. OpenStreetMap community has already some resources on that topic as
> well as case studies [4].
>
> Best regards,
> Vaclav
>
> [1] http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4020942
> [2] http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel
> [3] http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common
> [4] http://teachosm.org
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> From: "Mueller, Thomas" <Mueller at calu.edu>
> To: Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>, ICA OSGeo Labs list <
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> Vaclav
>
> This is awesome.  Thank you for the article.  I was thinking of doing
> something similar in my GEO 100 class.  I was thinking of comparing ArcGIS
> Online vs an Open GIS product.  Does anyone know of a similar product to
> ArcGIS online?
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
> ________________________________
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Vaclav Petras [
> wenzeslaus at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 10:34 PM
> To: ICA OSGeo Labs list
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Paper about FOSS into geospatial education
>
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to let you know about an open access paper called
> *Integrating Free and Open Source Solutions into Geospatial Science
> Education* [1] which our group [2] published recently in a special issue of
> ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (thanks Suchith and other
> for organizing it).
>
> >From our experience, when teaching geospatial thinking and analysis,
> >software is often or even always involved. However, students tend to
> >mix the theory with software specifics. Our solution is to teach theory
> >and general ideas in lectures and use two different software packages in
> labs.
> >With this approach, students get hands-on practice while getting the
> >idea what is general principle and what is specific to one or the other
> >software package.
>
> Our flagship course is *Geospatial Analysis and Modeling* [3] and we use
> GRASS GIS and ArcGIS but the principle is obviously applicable to any
> course and any software. This modeling course is well-established and
> well-maintained since it runs every semester for several years already. The
> course material is licensed under CC BY-SA. You can find more information
> and more courses in the paper and on our website and I'll be happy to give
> you more details as well.
>
> In the paper, we focus on graduate education but we hope to apply similar
> principles in undergraduate education too. However, for introduction to
> geospatial sciences at earlier levels (including high schools and middle
> schools), OpenStreetMap seems to me like a very good option because
> students can do something which actually has local or humanitarian impact
> while having the opportunity to analyze the collected data later in the
> course.
> OpenStreetMap community has already some resources on that topic as well
> as case studies [4].
>
> Best regards,
> Vaclav
>
> [1] http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4020942
> [2] http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel
> [3] http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common
> [4] http://teachosm.org
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> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 17:25:48 +0100
> From: Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
> To: "Mueller, Thomas" <Mueller at calu.edu>, Vaclav Petras <
> wenzeslaus at gmail.com>, ICA OSGeo Labs list <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
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> Great work Vaclav.
>
> I understand from Dr. Christopher K Tucker (Chairman of the Board of
> Trustees, The MapStory Foundation) cc in that when MapStory
> http://MapStory.org relaunched later in June, it will be an openly
> licensed data commons, an Open Educational Resource, that is OGC compliant,
> built on open source geo  http://www.GeoNode.org .  It is intended
> explicitly for students to be able to organize and share what they know
> about the world spatially and temporally.  And, in the redesign, they will
> open up distributed versioned editing of change over time, so that students
> can collaborate on data collection projects, and then tell their own
> stories with this data. This is exactly the kind of spatial learning
> platform we need for expanding geoeducation for schools.
>
> I suggest that,  GeoForAll should support and make use of  MapStory.org  ,
> as an alternative to proprietary ones like ArcGISOnline, so that students
> and teachers can make use of this for learning purposes without being
> dependent on the mercy of the proprietary vendor.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts/ideas. We will add MapStory to our
> training resources section and promote this to all educators.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mueller, Thomas [
> Mueller at calu.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 4:05 PM
> To: Vaclav Petras; ICA OSGeo Labs list
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Paper about FOSS into geospatial education
>
> Vaclav
>
> This is awesome.  Thank you for the article.  I was thinking of doing
> something similar in my GEO 100 class.  I was thinking of comparing ArcGIS
> Online vs an Open GIS product.  Does anyone know of a similar product to
> ArcGIS online?
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
> ________________________________
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Vaclav Petras [
> wenzeslaus at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 10:34 PM
> To: ICA OSGeo Labs list
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Paper about FOSS into geospatial education
>
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to let you know about an open access paper called
> *Integrating Free and Open Source Solutions into Geospatial Science
> Education* [1] which our group [2] published recently in a special issue of
> ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (thanks Suchith and other
> for organizing it).
>
> >From our experience, when teaching geospatial thinking and analysis,
> >software is often or even always involved. However, students tend to
> >mix the theory with software specifics. Our solution is to teach theory
> >and general ideas in lectures and use two different software packages in
> labs.
> >With this approach, students get hands-on practice while getting the
> >idea what is general principle and what is specific to one or the other
> >software package.
>
> Our flagship course is *Geospatial Analysis and Modeling* [3] and we use
> GRASS GIS and ArcGIS but the principle is obviously applicable to any
> course and any software. This modeling course is well-established and
> well-maintained since it runs every semester for several years already. The
> course material is licensed under CC BY-SA. You can find more information
> and more courses in the paper and on our website and I'll be happy to give
> you more details as well.
>
> In the paper, we focus on graduate education but we hope to apply similar
> principles in undergraduate education too. However, for introduction to
> geospatial sciences at earlier levels (including high schools and middle
> schools), OpenStreetMap seems to me like a very good option because
> students can do something which actually has local or humanitarian impact
> while having the opportunity to analyze the collected data later in the
> course.
> OpenStreetMap community has already some resources on that topic as well
> as case studies [4].
>
> Best regards,
> Vaclav
>
> [1] http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4020942
> [2] http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel
> [3] http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common
> [4] http://teachosm.org
>
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> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:53:07 +0000
> From: "Mueller, Thomas" <Mueller at calu.edu>
> To: Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
> Cc: ICA OSGeo Labs list <ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Paper about FOSS into geospatial education
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> On a side note, I do not want to step on your toes. I am not interested
> for research just to show students different tools etc
>
> Tom
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 20, 2015, at 10:34 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com<mailto:
> wenzeslaus at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I would like to let you know about an open access paper called
> *Integrating Free and Open Source Solutions into Geospatial Science
> Education* [1] which our group [2] published recently in a special issue of
> ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (thanks Suchith and other
> for organizing it).
>
> >From our experience, when teaching geospatial thinking and analysis,
> >software is often or even always involved. However, students tend to
> >mix the theory with software specifics. Our solution is to teach theory
> >and general ideas in lectures and use two different software packages in
> labs.
> >With this approach, students get hands-on practice while getting the
> >idea what is general principle and what is specific to one or the other
> >software package.
>
> Our flagship course is *Geospatial Analysis and Modeling* [3] and we use
> GRASS GIS and ArcGIS but the principle is obviously applicable to any
> course and any software. This modeling course is well-established and
> well-maintained since it runs every semester for several years already. The
> course material is licensed under CC BY-SA. You can find more information
> and more courses in the paper and on our website and I'll be happy to give
> you more details as well.
>
> In the paper, we focus on graduate education but we hope to apply similar
> principles in undergraduate education too. However, for introduction to
> geospatial sciences at earlier levels (including high schools and middle
> schools), OpenStreetMap seems to me like a very good option because
> students can do something which actually has local or humanitarian impact
> while having the opportunity to analyze the collected data later in the
> course.
> OpenStreetMap community has already some resources on that topic as well
> as case studies [4].
>
> Best regards,
> Vaclav
>
> [1] http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4020942
> [2] http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel
> [3] http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common
> [4] http://teachosm.org
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