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September CCCOER Monthly Advisory Meeting featuring Campus Promo Toolkit Beta, and QGIS Open Source GIS Courses with Delmar College.
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CCCOER Advisory MeetingSept 24, 2014, 11:00 am Pacific
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Agenda• Welcome New Members
– Maryland Online, Citrus College, Connecticut Distance Education Learning Consortium
• Announcements• Campus Promo Toolkit Update• QGIS Program Delmar College, TX• Conferences and Events• Next Meeting: Oct 22• Open Discussion Time
– Accessibility and OER– Librarians and OER
Welcome New Members
Welcome
Introduce yourself and briefly mention any updates.
• Today’s hosts
– Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director at the Open Education Consortium, OER Librarian Cal State University
– James Glapa-Grossklag, President of CCCOER Advisory Board, Dean at College of the Canyons
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Announcements• Textbook Affordability from Education
Commission of the States highlight:– Arizona, California, Florida, Minnesota,New York, North Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
• OpenStax Cnx website rewrite– Unify user accounts – Better output file production: ePub, etc– Users and 3rd party application may publish
More Announcements• California Online Education Initiative
– Largest higher education online grant– OER inclusion in course development
• College of the Canyons Title 5 Grant– Includes requirement for OER usage
• eLearning 2015 proposals due Oct. 3
OEC Global 2015Call for Proposals
The Open Education Consortium and Athabasca University, organizers of the Open Education Global Conference 2015, invite proposals for conference sessions and papers to be included in the conference proceedings.
Submissions Due: November 30, 2014When: 22-24 April, 2015
The theme for Open Education Global 2015 is Entrepreneurship and Innovation, emphasizing the exciting directions and developments in open education around the world.
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Campus Promo Toolkit Beta• Summer Project (beta now)
– Need more developers
• Thanks especially to:– Karen Rege, Delaware County Community College– Paul Golisch, Paradise Valley College– Donna Gaudet, Scottsdale Community College– James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons– Una Daly, Open Education Consortium
Campus Promo Toolkit Betahttp://oerconsortium.org/campus-oer-promo-tk/
• Benefits and Challenges • Creating an OER Roadmap • Marketing Strategies• Case Studies• Policies and Models • Professional Development • Additional Resources
Creating an OER Roadmap
• Step 1: Needs Assessment• Step 2: Asking Strategic Questions • Step 3: Developing the Plan• Step 4: Implement the Plan• Step 5: Evaluate the Outcomes• Step 6: Go back to Step 2 and repeat …
– STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Marketing Strategies• Great list of how to get the different
stakeholders on campus invested in your initiative and helping you to extend your reach
Case Studies• Read about how other colleges and
universities developed their OER projects and the outcomes that they achieved.
Policies and Models• Open policies can pave the road for
getting buy-in from campus stakeholders so read all about successful open policies developed and adopted by educational institutions.
Professional Development• A set of resources appropriate for
developing workshops to find, select, and adopt OER.– STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION– LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS
Additional Resources• Sample surveys for gathering
student and faculty feedback, directories and repositories listing, open journals, and additional references.– STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
QGIS Academy:Open GIS Courses
Dr. Phillip Davis, Program Director, Geographic Systems Professor Computer Science
http://foss4geo.org
Phillip Davis| Kurt Menke| John Van Hosen |Richard Smith
EDUCATING 21ST CENTURY GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY WORKERS
• Overview of the new QGIS Academy Curriculum• Background on curriculum development• Curriculum alignment with national standards• Description of the five GIS courses• Details of the course content• Demonstration of the curriculum lecture, lab and
videos• Plans for future development and distribution• The Academy does not represent the official
QGIS project
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN TODAY
• One complete curriculum, based on national standard (GTCM)
• Four highly-qualified subject matter experts)• Five complete courses (lecture, labs, data, assessments)• 40 complete labs in two formats (Esri ArcGIS 10.1 and
QGIS)• 100 instructional videos mapped to lab exercise tasks• 200 FTE students enrolled in first Academy cohort (fall
2014)• 2300+ beta testers during summer 2014• Proposed “Mastering QGIS” book by PACKT under
production
ACADEMY BY THE NUMBERS
• 95% of US-based colleges use a single vendor’s software
• Only 5% US-based colleges report using FOSS4G
• Shortchanging our graduates in terms of technology skills and abilities
• US Dept of Labor Competency Model recognizes value of open source knowledge & skills
MOVING BEYOND SINGLE PROPRIETARY CURRICULUM
• First national attempt at a completely open-based GIS curriculum
• Curriculum infrastructure for academics and trainers
• Complete course packs aligned with national standard (GTCM)
• Contains theory, lecture, labs, data and videos
THE QGIS ACADEMY
• Provide educational resources infrastructure for educators and trainers
• Promote the adoption of open source for undergraduate programs
• Prepare graduates for lifelong earning skills
• Increase the use of open source tools in college GIS programs
GOALS OF THE QGIS ACADEMY
• Curriculum materials• Multimedia theory
presentations• QGIS laboratory
documents with screen shots and data
• Task-oriented how-to videos that match lab documents
• Objective assessment database of 200+ questions
WHAT DOES THE ACADEMY OFFER?
• US Dept. of Labor national clearinghouse model
• Published in 2010, revised in 2015
• Describes the complete set of knowledge, skills, and abilities required by industry workers
• Built on hierarchical tiered model of knowledge
• Promotes use of open source technology
GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCY MODEL (GTCM)
Consist of 5 Core Courses:• GST 101 Introduction
GIS• GST 102 Spatial
Analysis• GST 103 Data
Management• GST 104 Cartography• GST 105 Remote
Sensing
QGIS ACADEMY CURRICULUM
• Fundamental overview of GIS theory and practice
• Geospatial data types and formats (vector, raster, etc)
• Elements of geography• Fundamentals of
cartography• Introduction to remote
sensing
GST 101 INTRODUCTION TO GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY USING QGIS
• Beta launched June 2014
• 2,325 students enrolled (as of 8/6/2014) in beta
• Every continent has participants (except Antarctica)
• Five complete course packages
• 100+ QGIS how-to videos
RESULTS OF QGIS ACADEMY BETA
• Digital badges for completion using Open Badges by Mozilla
• Course offerings through Continuing Education (CE)
• $25 per instructor-led course• Courses will be 4 weeks long• CE Certificate of Completion for
each course• CE Skills degree for passing 5
course curriculum• CE can be converted to
undergraduate credit hour courses one for one
• Partnership with Canvas Networks for MOOC offering in October 2014
FUTURE PLANS
Kurt Menke [email protected]
Richard Smith [email protected]
Phillip [email protected]
John Van [email protected]
CONTACTS
Access to paid Canvas courses:http://foss4geo.wordpress.org
Access to free Canvas courses:http://foss4geo.org
Access to Esri version source:http://nterlearning.org
Access to QGIS source:https://github.com/FOSS4GAcademy
FOSS4G ACADEMY WEBSITES
Fall 2014 Webinars2nd Wed, 10:00 PST (1:00 PM EST)
Open Course Design and DevelopmentWed, Oct 8, 10:00 am Pacific (1:00 pm EST)Featuring speakers from Lumen Learning, UMUC.and Northern Virginia Community College.
Opening up Pedagogy with Open Educational ResourcesWed, Nov 12, 10:00 am Pacific (1:00 pm EST)Featured speakers will include college instructors and their students sharing how the use of open educational resources changed their learning experience.
OER Research and Open AccessWed, December 10, 10:00 am Pacific (1:00 pm EST)Featured speakers will include those actively involved in system-wide and global OER research projects and the SPARC Open Education project.
Archived webinars available at http://oerconsortium.org
Advisory Meetings Fall 2014
We are looking for short project presentations at these meetings. Please make suggestions.
Sept 24, 2014 Today @ 11:00 am
Oct 22, 2014 11:00 am PST, 2:00 pm EST
Dec 3, 201411:00 am PST, 2:00 pm EST
Fall Conferences
Conference Location DateEducause Orlando Sept 29-Oct 2
Open Access Week Global-Online Oct 20-25STEM Tech Conference Denver Nov 9-12WCET 2014 Portland, OR Nov 19-21Open Ed Conference D.C. Nov 19-21DETCHE Long Beach, CA Dec 3-5eLearning 2015 Conference Las Vegas Feb 18-21
Discussion Time• Librarians and OER: Committee of OEC
– Partnering with SPARC, CCCOER, BCcampus
• Accessibility and OER– BCcampus Strategy– OpenStax Strategy– Forming a subgroup to keep
communications open on this critical issue
Una Daly: [email protected] Glapa-Grossklag: [email protected]
Thank you for coming!!
See you on Oct 22!
