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

Fri Mar 18 21:00:48 PDT 2016

Hi Charlie,
This announcement might be a path leading to a grant:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/new_nap_commitments_report_092314.pdf

New U.S. National Action Plan Initiatives
It leads with specific action plans for promoting Open Education

On 19/03/2016 7:19 am, Charlie Schweik wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>>     <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>         Dear All,
>>
>>         I came across this website called Share my Lesson
>>         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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>>
>>     Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>>     Dept of Environmental Conservation and School of Public Policy
>>
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> Dept of Environmental Conservation and School of Public Policy
>
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