Re: On the links between FOSS developers and the academia
Jan-Oliver Wagner <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:53:57AM +0300, Ari Jolma wrote: > Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > > Students learn to know that there are alternatives > > and how to evaluate them. A qualification I miss for many > > students. > > Maybe I'm just revealing my ignorance ;) but.. I should be teaching just > that among other things. How would you go about it? Do you have any good > texts in mind, especially GIS specific? my comment derived from what I have seen in german universities. For example georeferencing of raster pictures: why have all the students work only with a single proprietary product to try out in practice what they learned in theory (well, I've seen courses where the theory part was kept to a minimum, say the users manual on how to georeference) Why not instead have some students try product A, some product B etc. and later report how they did in practice what they learned during theory. Yes, I am aware this creates extra-work for the staff, but I hope you get what I mean. Unfortunately I do not have good texts at hand... Best Jan -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ Kolab Konsortium http://kolab-konsortium.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/