[Ica-osgeo-labs] Looking for Web-GIS syllabi

Thu May 28 06:37:12 PDT 2015

http://www.cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/cp78-roth-et-al/1348

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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charles Schweik [cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
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Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Looking for Web-GIS syllabi

Hi Cameron, all:

We'll ponder this as well. I'm copying my collaborators.

Charlie

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com<mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Jorge, others,
One thing which would be very valuable would be to align development of GIS training material with the OSGeo-Live build process. Probably incorporate training material in the documentation at:
http://live.osgeo.org

This could be collaboratively developed and continually updated by both project teams, training institutes, and our existing teams of translators.

Jorge, it looks like you have a good start on this. I'd be interested to see how we could link with OSGeo-Live.

Warm Regards, Cameron

On 27/05/2015 7:01 am, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote:
Hi Charlie, hi Andy,

Last year I've started (but not finished) a web gis course, based on OSGeo Live.

My goal was to create a course that could be translated to different languages, and always using local data.

I've created http://mapmaking.info/ to setup the course. I've just created contents for chinese students, using chinese data (but I didn't had time to write it in mandarim, so it is still in english). Now I'm translating the course to portuguese, using data from Portugal.

My suggestion is to use administrative data for some global source like:
* http://www.gadm.org/
* http://gdem.ersdac.jspacesystems.or.jp/
* OSM planet extracts

Every student would use the same technologies, the same algoritms, but using data that has some meaning for them. Those interested in teaching the course to a new community would have to translate the contents and to provide the equivalent datasets related with the community.

We already have tons of open source software available in different languagues and amazing data from all around the globe. It is time to create powerful contens "Think globally" adapted to local learning communities "act locally".

As a minor note, whenever possible, we should align our syllabus with the BoK, despite web gis being the weakest BoK topic.

Regards,

Jorge Gustavo

On 26-05-2015 17<tel:26-05-2015%2017>:37, Charles Schweik wrote:
Hello GeoForAll colleagues,

Some colleague and I just received some funding to develop a new Web-GIS
course for Spring 2016, and this week we are working on a rough draft
syllabus as a requirement from the funder. We're in negotiation with the
funder on intellectual property rights, but we are confident that we
will be able to license the course open access under some Creative
Commons license. I also want to try and use this effort as a step
forward in our quest to build the content system and a 'new derivative
work' system.

My request:
*
*
*If you have taught a Web-GIS class in the last few years and are
willing to share your syllabus with us*, or if you have relevant
materials you are willing to share, please let me know (and copy my
developer colleague, Andy Anderson, cc'd above). If we use anything,
we'd of course give you attribution!

Thanks in advance!

Charlie Schweik

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
Administration

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