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FOSS4G Europe in Como, July 16, 2015 Summary notes

Participants: BOF_signup_list. Thanks for Toni for taking notes!

We only had 45 minutes, so to make the meeting productive these questions were proposed:

Geo4All What would you like to see Geo4All in 5 years -- 2020 (!) -- in the context of educational collaboration?
Geo4All what we need to do together to achieve this vision?
Geo4All what can we do THIS YEAR to move forward?
Geo4All what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us toward this vision?'

We didn't have enough time to go through all these questions. The key points that came out of our group's discussion focuses on questions 1 and 4.

1.VISION OF GEOFORALL EDUCATION IN 2020

A. CURRICULAR

Universities and schools responsible for this
Build shared curriculum in a MODULAR fashion and based on curricular standards such as
- the GIS&T Body of Knowledge (2014? Some updates being done on it now? Suchith says it may be by http://www.gi-n2k.eu/) and/or,
- the GCTM
Have a dataset sharing system
Develop case-based material (e.g., solve a problem about flooding)
Separate conceptual/theoretical from technology in course material. Design so that complementary exercises can be written for different technologies (e.g., QGIS, gvSig, Grass, etc.)
Develop exercise materials with dataset names that are generic to allow for the 'swapping in and out' of data relevant to teaching location.

B. WEB-BASED SHARING PLATFORM

Designed to allow the educator to search or easily find modules they want
Could be graphical or hierarchical and/or built on one of the curriculum standards, where the user can click on a section and find available material (e.g., theory, exercises, cases) related to that concept
Possible GeoForAll MOOC course(s)
Whatever is implemented needs to be VERY SIMPLE and not demanding on the end user

C. INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS

Students in our programs are getting internships with industry and academia that are involved in GeoForAll

2. STEPS OVER THE NEXT YEAR

- Dataset sharing (Lene) - Education Hackfest (QGIS) - Jupiter system: can we develop a Jupiter infraestructure? - Maybe to create several MOOC. Coursera for example allows to create several levels?

3. DISCUSSION ABOUT REGIONAL LISTS QUESTION

- We decided we should keep them for the next year. They may be useful for helping with 'language' problems in our network (people who don't speak english), and it may be too early to decide... not much traffic on these lists currently, so not relly competing with the main GeoForAll list.

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-'''FOSS4G Europe in Como, July 16, 2015
+''FOSS4G Europe in Como, July 16, 2015
 Summary notes'''
-Participants: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_BirdsOfAFeather#GeoForAll_BOF]
+Participants: [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_BirdsOfAFeather#GeoForAll_BOF BOF_signup_list]. Thanks for Toni for taking notes!
+We only had 45 minutes, so to make the meeting productive these questions were proposed:
+'''
+* Geo4All What would you like to see Geo4All in 5 years -- 2020 (!) -- in the context of educational collaboration?
+* Geo4All what we need to do together to achieve this vision?
+* Geo4All what can we do THIS YEAR to move forward?
+* Geo4All what can YOU DO THIS YEAR to move us toward this vision?''''''
-+ Geo4All What would you like to see Geo4All in 5 years the context of educational collaboration?.
+We didn't have enough time to go through all these questions. The key points that came out of our group's discussion focuses on questions 1 and 4.
-+ Geo4All what we need to do together
-+ Geo4All what can we do this year to move forward?
-+ Geo4All what can everyone of us do this year?
-QGIS
+'''1.VISION OF GEOFORALL EDUCATION IN 2020'''
-OSGeo Educational Content Inventory -> We can put anything we can do. We can choose language.¡ and search for language.
+'''A. CURRICULAR'''
-What is education? Education is broad, including science.
+* Universities and schools responsible for this
+* Build shared curriculum in a MODULAR fashion and based on curricular standards such as
+** the GIS&T Body of Knowledge (2014? Some updates being done on it now? Suchith says it may be by http://www.gi-n2k.eu/) and/or,
+** the [http://www.geotechcenter.org/gtcm-curriculum-guide.html GCTM]
+* Have a dataset sharing system
+* Develop case-based material (e.g., solve a problem about flooding)
+* Separate conceptual/theoretical from technology in course material. Design so that complementary exercises can be written for different technologies (e.g., QGIS, gvSig, Grass, etc.)
+* Develop exercise materials with dataset names that are generic to allow for the 'swapping in and out' of data relevant to teaching location.
-Where we can we be in 2020?
+'''B. WEB-BASED SHARING PLATFORM'''
+* Designed to allow the educator to search or easily find modules they want
+* Could be graphical or hierarchical and/or built on one of the curriculum standards, where the user can click on a section and find available material (e.g., theory, exercises, cases) related to that concept
+* Possible GeoForAll MOOC course(s)
+* Whatever is implemented needs to be VERY SIMPLE and not demanding on the end user
-\section{Vision in 5 years}
+'''C. INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS'''
--> To have a curriculum for a geoacademy. An online curriculum "buffet". EU Datasets, cases (problems like how many cases would be flowded). To mark what you need and say what you need for students.
+* Students in our programs are getting internships with industry and academia that are involved in GeoForAll
-The Geoacademy course should be matched with the Geo Body of knowledge.
-An example could be Geotech center.org
-The BOK is also there
--> To have a BOK syllabus. A flag for the level and other flag for the topic. You can see even the overlaps.
+. STEPS OVER THE NEXT YEAR
- -> We should have to an skill inventory, and educator picks skills to want to teach.
- -> We should have to know also the target of the material. But at the end we should look at the material. To put the materials into the database. The question is "Who will use the database and which should have to be the output"?
- -> It seams that the BOK stops at GIS and has nothing about the web.
- -> It is interesting how people is using MOOCs.
- -> But to build a curriculum is the role of the universtity.
--> The role of industry should have to be taken into account.  This can create internships oportunities: firms, agencies. We can help industry to use open source GIS.
--> Service learning in classes.
--> Important to get symple: what what we need to define materials?
-\section{Next Year}
 - Dataset sharing (Lene)
-- Hackfest
+- Education Hackfest (QGIS)
 - Jupiter system: can we develop a Jupiter infraestructure?
-- Maybe to create several MOOC. Coursera for example allows to create several levels.
+- Maybe to create several MOOC. Coursera for example allows to create several levels?
-- Regional lists: they should have to be revised next year. We should be for a more regional initiatives or for a more global initiative?
-- In Seoul it will be seen Geo4All in other parts of the world.
+'''3. DISCUSSION ABOUT REGIONAL LISTS QUESTION'''
-It is important to note that if someone does not agree with what has been decided, can say it.
+- We decided we should keep them for the next year. They may be useful for helping with 'language' problems in our network (people who don't speak english), and it may be too early to decide... not much traffic on these lists currently, so not relly competing with the main GeoForAll list.

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