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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>I’m sure you’ve seen this stuff before, but for others watching this thread, a lot of ground is already covered by the existing GIS&T body of knowledge, which is currently under revision to provide new foci around web mapping, dealing with big data, etc… The pre-revision BoK is still highly useful for course development, in my opinion: <a href="http://www.aag.org/galleries/publications-files/GIST_Body_of_Knowledge.pdf">http://www.aag.org/galleries/publications-files/GIST_Body_of_Knowledge.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Here’s an interesting network viz of the BoK, too: <a href="http://carto.byu.edu/bokviswiki/">http://carto.byu.edu/bokviswiki/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Another source of learning objectives in GIS&T is the Geospatial Technology Competency Model, which has also been recently revised (Tiers 4 and 5 are most relevant for this discussion, I think): <a href="http://www.careeronestop.org/competencymodel/competency-models/geospatial-technology.aspx">http://www.careeronestop.org/competencymodel/competency-models/geospatial-technology.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>I know Sterling Quinn struggled with this notion when developing his new course for us on Open Web Mapping. We worked hard to try and sort out objectives around learning design patterns while making use of open source tools, anticipating that while the individual tools may change over time, the fundamental need will probably still be there to understand how to use libraries to create web map tiles/vectors, do spatial computing on the server-side, and make the leap from desktop GIS into layers that will work for web mapping.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>-Anthony<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Charles Schweik<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, June 13, 2015 2:09 AM<br><b>To:</b> Cameron Shorter<br><b>Cc:</b> ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open GIS Academics and educators please apply to AAG call before June 15th, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>+1...<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am starting to develop a web-GIS class with some colleagues and it is my hope that we can separate out conceptual/theoretical from technology-explicit content. It is interesting to try and thing of what the pure learning objectives are in this area. If anyone has ideas on this let me know off-thread...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Perhaps obvious, but the separation of conceptual and tech training examples s is important for OSGeo too, for, for example, there are multiple desktop packages. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Charlie<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 13/06/2015 1:14 am, Anthony Robinson wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So what I mean is that the<br>learning objectives should be pure learning objectives. For example:<br><br>YES to “Students should be able to explain projections and choose an<br>appropriate one for making a thematic map.”<br><br>NO to “Students should be able to explain projections and choose an<br>appropriate one for making a thematic map using QGIS (or ArcGIS Online, or<br>whatever).”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>+1 to this explanation Anthony.<br><br>Once learning objectives have been created, it will make it much easier to develop relevant training courses for specific products, which can reference back to the training objectives.<br><br>And if the development of base course material is set up along similar collaborative principles to Open Source development, then the relatively high effort of maintaining training material could be absorbed by the product's community (probably through a combination of developers, users and trainers).<br><br>-- <br>Cameron Shorter,<br>Software and Data Solutions Manager<br>LISAsoft<br>Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,<br>26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009<br><br>P <a href="tel:%2B61%202%209009%205000" target="_blank">+61 2 9009 5000</a>, W <a href="http://www.lisasoft.com" target="_blank">www.lisasoft.com</a>, F <a href="tel:%2B61%202%209009%205099" target="_blank">+61 2 9009 5099</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>ica-osgeo-labs mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ica-osgeo-labs</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Charlie Schweik<br><br>Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and Administration<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Personal website: <a href="http://people.umass.edu/cschweik" target="_blank">http://people.umass.edu/cschweik</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Publications: <a href="http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/" target="_blank">http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2012) - see <a href="http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>--------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Q: Why is this email five sentences or less?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>A: <a href="http://five.sentenc.es" target="_blank">http://five.sentenc.es</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>