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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?<br>
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Thanks<br>
Tom<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Ica-osgeo-labs] Paper about FOSS into geospatial education<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br>
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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).<br>
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>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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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].<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Vaclav<br>
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[1] <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4020942" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4020942</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel" target="_blank">http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/osgeorel</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common" target="_blank">http://courses.ncsu.edu/gis582/common</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://teachosm.org" target="_blank">http://teachosm.org</a></div>
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