September CCCOER Monthly Advisory Meeting featuring Campus Promo Toolkit Beta, and QGIS Open Source GIS Courses with Delmar College.

1. CCCOER Advisory Meeting
Sept 24, 2014, 11:00 am Pacific
1-888-886-3951()

2. Collaborate Window Overview
Audio & Video
Participants
Chat
Tech Support available at:
1-760-744-1150 ext. 1537, 1554

3. 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

4. Welcome New Members

5. 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
.

6. 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

7. 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

8. OEC Global 2015
Call 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, 2014
When: 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

9. 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

10. Campus Promo Toolkit Beta
http://oerconsortium.org/campus-oer-promo-tk/
• Benefits and Challenges
• Creating an OER Roadmap
• Marketing Strategies
• Case Studies
• Policies and Models
• Professional Development
• Additional Resources

11. 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

12. Marketing Strategies
• Great list of how to get the different
stakeholders on campus invested in your
initiative and helping you to extend your
reach

13. Case Studies
• Read about how other colleges and
universities developed their OER projects
and the outcomes that they achieved.

14. 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.

15. Professional Development
• A set of resources appropriate for
developing workshops to find, select, and
adopt OER.
– STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION
– LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS

16. Additional Resources
• Sample surveys for gathering student and
faculty feedback, directories and
repositories listing, open journals, and
additional references.
– STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION

17. QGIS Academy:
Open GIS Courses
Dr. Phillip Davis,
Program Director, Geographic Systems
Professor Computer Science
http://foss4geo.org

18. EDUCATING 21ST
CENTURY GEOSPATIAL
TECHNOLOGY WORKERS
Phillip Davis| Kurt Menke| John Van Hosen
|Richard Smith

19. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
TODAY
• 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

20. ACADEMY BY THE
NUMBERS
• 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

24. MOVING BEYOND SINGLE
PROPRIETARY
CURRICULUM
• 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

25. THE QGIS ACADEMY
• 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

26. GOALS OF 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

27. WHAT DOES THE ACADEMY
OFFER?
• 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

28. GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY
COMPETENCY MODEL (GTCM)
• 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

29. QGIS ACADEMY
CURRICULUM
Consist of 5 Core
Courses:
• GST 101 Introduction
GIS
• GST 102 Spatial
Analysis
• GST 103 Data
Management
• GST 104 Cartography
• GST 105 Remote
Sensing

30. GST 101 INTRODUCTION TO
GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY
USING QGIS
• 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

35. RESULTS OF QGIS
ACADEMY BETA
• 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

36. FUTURE PLANS
• 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

37. Kurt Menke
kurt@birdseyeviewgis.com
Richard Smith
richard.smith@tamucc.edu
CONTACTS
Phillip Davis
pdavis@delmar.edu
John Van Hoesen
vanhoesenj@greenmtn.ed
u

38. FOSS4G ACADEMY
WEBSITES
Access to paid Canvas
courses:
http://foss4geo.wordpress.or
g
Access to free Canvas courses:
http://foss4geo.org
Access to Esri version source:
http://nterlearning.org
Access to QGIS source:
https://github.com/FOSS4GAcad
emy

39. Fall 2014 Webinars
2nd Wed, 10:00 PST (1:00 PM EST)
Open Course Design and Development
Wed, 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 Resources
Wed, 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 Access
Wed, 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

40. 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, 2014 11:00 am PST, 2:00 pm EST

41. Fall Conferences
Conference Location Date
Educause Orlando Sept 29-Oct 2
Open Access Week Global-Online Oct 20-25
STEM Tech Conference Denver Nov 9-12
WCET 2014 Portland, OR Nov 19-21
Open Ed Conference D.C. Nov 19-21
DETCHE Long Beach, CA Dec 3-5
eLearning 2015 Conference Las Vegas Feb 18-21

42. 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

43. See you on Oct 22!
Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
James Glapa-Grossklag: James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu
Thank you for coming!!