[Qgis-developer] QGIS Training and Coursework

[John Ellis]

Excellent Thank you Marco! This would definitely fall under QGIS
Certification, and this would be a set of self study training courses.  For
each course completed an have a smaller examination and certificate of
completion.  What I am envisioning is a group of courses that once
completed would prepare a person for each certification level.  I saw that
the curricula is already defined for the entry level courses, is this
correct and does anyone know where this is located?

-Thank you
John

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Marco Bernasocchi
<marco at bernawebdesign.ch>wrote:

> HI John, di you see this [0]? goes in a similar direction.
>
> ciao
>
> [0] http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/**quantum-gis/Certification<http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Certification>
>
> On 05/01/2012 04:59 PM, John Ellis wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to the list and after reading through some of the archives I
>> don't believe that anyone else has started working on something like this.
>>
>> I have thought that a training program or set of classes would be an
>> excellent addition to the QGIS Community.  After reading through
>> portions of the QGIS manual, I believe that this would be an excellent
>> basis for developing an interactive curriculum that can continually be
>> added to as new features and concepts become available, and mature.
>>
>> An excellent tool that is available for presenting curriculum is an open
>> source and free web based platform called Moodle.  I would like to
>> volunteer to develop a basic curriculum based on the User Manual, and
>> make this available for free to anyone that is interested.  Eventually
>> adding more advanced content containing a wide array of topics on GIS.
>>  Also providing Certificates of Completion for courses that can then be
>> applied towards the educational component of the GISP certification.  I
>> know that there is a pretty steep learning curve for any GIS and I would
>> like a way to ease QGIS users through the 220+ page user manual.
>>
>> I think that educating users in a structured, and accessible format is
>> the best way to advance QGIS to take it's rightful place as an industry
>> standard GIS application.  Do you have any thoughts on this?
>>
>> --
>> John Ellis
>> cpjellis at gmail.com <mailto:cpjellis at gmail.com>
>>
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John Ellis
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