Teaching Material Evaluation Criteria

This is a thought experiment

= Purpose =

The purpose of this document is to outline the criteria to be used for endorsing teaching material developed by OSGeo members and offered through the OSGeo site.

= Criteria =

Required

 * 1) Open-source-ness
 * 2) Software covered in the course is under an OSI approved license
 * 3) Material and data are available under an open content license (cf Open Knowledge Definition)
 * 4) Peer-review-ness
 * 5) The material has been reviewed and admired by at least 2 people on the Edu committee
 * 6) Course-material has been available on the edu/OSGeo wiki for at least
 * 7) Content quality
 * 8) Level of instruction
 * 9) Expected knowledge/training acquired after the course (what will the participant be able to do after going through the course)
 * 10) Length of course
 * 11) Physical presence required, or online (distance learning) course
 * 12) Kind of recognition given (certificate, diploma, degree)
 * 13) Breadth of course (how much ground do the various course components cover)
 * 14) Depth of course (how much in detail each course component is taught)
 * 15) Tutorial comes with metadata identifying author, date, length/timespan, audience type

Desirable

 * 1) At least software from one OSGeo Software project is used