[Ica-osgeo-labs] Open GIS Academics and educators please apply to AAG call before June 15th, 2015

[Anthony Robinson]

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: 
http://www.aag.org/galleries/publications-files/GIST_Body_of_Knowledge.pdf



Here’s an interesting network viz of the BoK, too: 
http://carto.byu.edu/bokviswiki/



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): 
http://www.careeronestop.org/competencymodel/competency-models/geospatial-technology.aspx



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.



Cheers,



-Anthony





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[mailto:ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charles Schweik
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 2:09 AM
To: Cameron Shorter
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Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Open GIS Academics and educators please apply 
to AAG call before June 15th, 2015



+1...



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...



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.



Cheers,

Charlie







On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Cameron Shorter 
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

On 13/06/2015 1:14 am, Anthony Robinson wrote:

So what I mean is that the
learning objectives should be pure learning objectives. For example:

YES to “Students should be able to explain projections and choose an
appropriate one for making a thematic map.”

NO to “Students should be able to explain projections and choose an
appropriate one for making a thematic map using QGIS (or ArcGIS Online, or
whatever).”


+1 to this explanation Anthony.

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.

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).

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