[Ica-osgeo-labs] Sharing is Caring - Share my Lesson - OpenStax

Fri Mar 18 13:19:33 PDT 2016

Yeah, OpenStax is one... It used to be Rice Connexions that I studied years
ago for our purposes but it appears that they now have moved to more of an
open textbook model. We just had an open stax staff visit our campus for
Open Access Week but I missed the presentation. I can find out more from
our Scholarly Communication Librarians.

There is also the Open Education Consortium [1], but they have (I think) a
membership fee model.

I've lost track of some of the advances being made here. I continue to
focus my GeoForAll energy on getting some grant funding that would allow us
to look at this in some depth, and having fun teaching a first class (for
me) in Web-GIS using an open source stack with my great colleagues Andy
Anderson (Amherst College) and Jon Caris (Smith College). Wish me luck on
the grant-getting... ! I hope others in our community are also trying to
get some funding to move us forward!

All the best, folks!

Cheers,
Charlie

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Charlie,
> Maybe OpenStax is what you are looking for.
> https://openstaxcollege.org/
>
> I just listened to the Ted Talk about it yesterday and got quite excited
> by the potential:
>
> https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_baraniuk_on_open_source_learning?language=en
>
> On 19/03/2016 1:53 am, Charlie Schweik wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Interesting, Suchith. However, I continue to feel that we want to move
> toward a system that allows for:
>
> 1) the uploading of modular content -- the unit should be "module" rather
> than a full course, but with a mechanism to provide a full course of
> modules. This would allow a "buffet" style of resource consumption.
>
> 2) the ability to upload source code rather than pdfs, to allow for the
> creation of new derivative works (e.g., translations, releases of new
> versions, etc.)
>
> Does this one provide those functions?
>
> One simple step forward for us would be for each lab to start putting
> their educational (source) content up and linked to their lab website, and
> we use the OSGeo educational search engine [1] to link to these materials?
>
> I continue to try and get a grant that might fund some work on the next
> version of our educational repository - it could be to use a system like
> this one, or it could be something else. We really need a GeoForAll
> "project" effort to figure out the right strategy. Finally, I also think
>  that some kind of "publication" system might help to incentivize
> submissions.
>
> My two cents,
>
> Charlie
>
> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I came across this website called Share my Lesson
>> <https://sharemylesson.com>https://sharemylesson.com  . The site has
>> more than 900,000 registered users, and all submissions are either licensed
>> as CC BY-NC-SA or CC BY-NC-ND. Originally launched by American Federation
>> of Teachers  and TES Global back in 2012. Looks like a great way to
>> collaborate for our spatial literacy plans .
>>
>> See some examples on GIS at
>> https://sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/using-gis-prepare-tropical-storms-162579
>>
>>
>> Chris or any US colleagues- do you know any contacts in American
>> Federation of Teachers or Share my Lesson?
>>
>> We can then jointly work on MapStory based lesson plans for various
>> levels (primary, secondary etc). All ideas welcome.
>>
>> Suchith
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