Dear colleagues,
On the occasion of Open Education Week 2015 http://www.openeducationweek.org/ ,
Geo for All community http://www.geoforall.org would to like to thank all
educators worldwide who have made contributions to open education efforts and
being good global citizens by helping spread the benefits of education to all.
We are very happy to announce the nominees for the GeoForAll - Global Educator
of the Year Award 2015. This is an opportunity for us to thank colleagues for
their excellent contributions to Openness in Education principles in the Geo
domain.
Congratulations to the following individuals or teams who received one or more
nominations for the 2015 GeoForAll Global Educator of the Year Award
In no particular order, the nominees are:
INDIVIDUALS
- Daniel Baldwin, Costa Rica International Academy, Costa Rica, for his course
on “Mapping the Mangroves” [1]
- Phil Davis, DelMar College, Texas, USA for his ongoing leadership and
tireless efforts leading the creation of the GeoAcademy [2]
- Genovevea Laurente, Consultora Calixto, Uruguay and gvSIG Batovi for the
course “Sistemas de Información Geográfica con uso de datos abiertos orientado
a la educación,” or in English, “Geographic Information Systems for Education
using Open Data” [3]
- Kurt Menke, Bird’s Eye View GIS, Alburquerque, NM, USA, for his Introduction
to Open Source and Web Mapping course he developed for Central New Mexico
Community College [4]
- Sterling Quinn, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, for his
course on “Open Web Mapping” [5]
- Giorgio Zamboni, Politecnico di Milano, Como campus, Italy for his
“PoliCrowd: A Social Network App with NASA World Wind. [6]
TEAMS
- Environmental Information Centre GRID-Warsaw; UNEP/GRID Warsaw for their
EduGIS Academy [7]
- Open Source Geospatial Laboratory team at ETH Zurich, Switzerland for their
Interactive Web Maps course [8]
- Shashi Shekhar and Brent Hecht, Computer Science, University of Minnesota,
USA for their Massive Open Online Course “From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial
Computing” [9]
- Lluis Vicens (SIGTE,Spain), Toni Hernandez (SIGTE, Spain), Jeremy Morley
(University of Nottingham,UK), Alberto Romeu (Prodevelop) and Jorge Sanz
(Prodevelop) for their GIS Open Source Summer School at the University of
Girona in Spain [10]
- Ricardo Olivira, Raphael Moreno - FOSS4G lab, University of Colorado, Denver
USA for their PostgreSQL/PostGIS course materials [11]
- Raquel Sosa, Rosario Casanova and Jorge Franco, for their gvSIG Educa/Batovi
effort in Uruguay [12]
- Kurt Menke - Brids Eye View, Nate Jennings Urbandale Spatial, Jon Van Hoesen
Green Mtn College, Rick Smith Texas AM, and Phil Davis, Delmar College (all in
USA) for their GeoAcademy development efforts [13]
All of these individuals and teams should be celebrated for their efforts. Just
being nominated is an honour.
The award committee now has the very difficult task of selecting the GeoForAll
Educator of the Year [14] out of this well deserving list of nominees. This
year’s selections (possibly an individual and a team award) will be announced
at the FOSS4G 2015- Europe Open Innovation for Europe conference at Como,
Italy in July . Details at http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/
Congratulations again to all the nominees and we encourage you to list this
nomination honour in your CVs.
Happy Open Education Week 2015 everyone.
Sincerely,
Prof. Charlie Schweik, on behalf of the GeoForAll Educator Award Selection
Committee:
Prof. Georg Gartner (President, ICA)
Jeff McKenna (President, OSGeo)
Chen Jun (President, ISPRS)
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli (Italy)
Dr. Xinyue Ye (USA)
Dr. Luciene Delazari (Brazil)
Dr. Tuong-Thuy Vu (Malaysia)
Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan (Japan/India)
Prof. Ivana Ivánová (Brazil)
Jeroen Ticheler (The Netherlands)
Dr. Serena Coetzee (South Africa)
Prof. Helena Mitasova (USA)
Anne Ghisla (Germany)
Patrick Hogan (USA)
Dr Suchith Anand (UK/India)
REFERENCES
[1]
https://arabic.oercommons.org/EN/authoring/4247-mapping-the-mangroves-mwl/view
[2] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com/
[3] http://ipesvirtual.dfpd.edu.uy/course/category.php?id=81
[4] http://catalog.cnm.edu/
[5] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog585/
[6] http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/policrowd/
[7] http://edugis.pl/en/for-teachers/guide
[8] http://osgl.ethz.ch/osgl/Webmaps.html
[9] https://www.coursera.org/course/spatialcomputing
[10] http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
[11] http://geospatial.ucdenver.edu/foss4g/training/tutorials
[12]
https://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/January_2013/gvsig_batovi_an_educational_gis.pdf
[13] https://foss4geo.wordpress.com
[14] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_Global_Educator_of_the_Year_Award_2015
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