Educating 21st Century Geospatial Technology Industry Workers with Open Source Software — Phillip Davis, FOSS4GEO Academ from gis training courses Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 15 min 90 sec ✓ Published: 29-Sep-2014
Description: Where are GIS educators to go when they need educational material to teach FOSS4G in their academic programs?While commercial vendors, like Esri through their Virtual Campus, have a wealth of training material available, there are very limited resources for educators seeking to teach FOSS4G.The new QGIS Academy program is the first national effort to provide this much need academic infrastructure.The Academy has produced a set of five full GIS courses, based on the latest version of QGIS,