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 17:37, 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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