[Geo4All] GeoAcademy course syllabi/goals? was: Introducing GeoAcademy GIS GeoBadges

[Smith, Richard]

Hi Tom,

I can provide access to the syllabi and course documents for you. Previously, they were hosted for download on the Department of Labor's training website (GST 104 example https://nter.collin.edu/web/guest/course-details?cid=1401), however, it seems that the links are now largely dead.

So, since we already have the open source lab material on my lab website [1] and GitHub [2], I will also move the syllabi and source lecture material to those locations as well. The packaged lectures can be viewed on my lab website [1], but the source material and syllabi have not been uploaded yet.

The catch is that I am on holiday in rural Maine for the next 10 days where the fastest network speed I have is .25Mb/Sec down .12Mb/Sec up, so I won't be able to move the materials until this end of this month. If you want the syllabi only, I can perhaps email them directly to you, let me know.

For everyone's benefit, here is what is included in the lecture portion of each course:
For each course module:
*Lecture - PowerPoint files and associated scripts for each slide as a separate Word document.
*Quiz - Quiz and associated answer sheet [3]
For each course:
*Exams - Typically two exams with associated answer sheets [3]
*Lab - Already hosted at [1] and [2].
Every lecture, quiz, and exam is CC BY 3.0.

[1] http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/
[2] https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy
[3] In the past, we have not posted the quizzes and exams online as we would prefer that those materials not be freely available as the curriculum is in use by some colleges. However, I do release those via email to professors who contact me directly.

Cheers,
-Rick

Richard Smith, Ph.D., GISP
Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of GISc/GSEN
Director of Spatial {Query} Lab
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Phone: 361-825-2750
Web: http://gisc.tamucc.edu
Web: http://www.spatialquerylab.com

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Subject: [Geo4All] GeoAcademy course syllabi/goals? was: Introducing GeoAcademy GIS GeoBadges


[footnotes following .sig]

Can someone point me to syllabi or educational objectives for the GeoAcademy courses? Something intermediate between the Geospatial Technology Competency Model[1] and the actual course materials (lectures and labs, more below)? What I mean, why I ask:

Suchith Anand[2] (footnotes added)
> GeoAcademy [has] 5 different GIS learning modules:

> * Introduction to Geospatial Technology[3]
> * Spatial Analysis Using GIS[4]
> * Data Acquisition and Management[5]
> * Cartography Using GIS[6]
> * Remote Sensing Using GIS[7]

Note that the course links I added to Dr Anand's quote above are from the FOSS4G Academy Curriculum page[8]. (If one instead goes to the GeoAcademy blog[9], one gets links to enroll in the courses, which may not be desired.)

Suchith Anand[2]
> All the teaching materials are made available in Creative Commons 
> licence so other educators can build upon this at 
> https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy

That link points to sources for the labs for each course (above) ... which is great, but hardly "all teaching materials" for a course. Am I missing something? If not:

While the course links given above point to both the lectures and labs for each course, I'm not seeing anything comparable to a conventional syllabus or statement of educational goals for each course. E.g., something that would state, for a given course,

* prerequisites

* what KSA[10] a student should expect to gain from the course

* what a teacher should expect a course graduate to know/do

Where to look?

TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>

[1]: http://www.careeronestop.org/COMPETENCYMODEL/competency-models/geospatial-technology.aspx , most recently archived @ http://web.archive.org/web/20160608185744/http://www.careeronestop.org/COMPETENCYMODEL/competency-models/geospatial-technology.aspx
[2]: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geoforall/2016-July/003042.html
[3]: http://spatialquerylab.com/gst-101-introduction-to-geospatial-technology/
[4]: http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-102-spatial-analysis/
[5]: http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-103-data-acquisition-and-management/
[6]: http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-104-cartographic-design/
[7]: http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/gst-105-introduction-to-remote-sensing/
[8]: http://spatialquerylab.com/foss4g-academy-curriculum/
[9]: https://fossgeo.org/free-qgis-courses/
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