[Freegis-list] On the links between FOSS developers and the academia

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

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

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