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Som e thoughts on the possible benefits of using VirLaBoK for GI teaching design and GI course finding 06 July 2016, Frans I. Rip

Triggers for the ‘thoughts’? Triggers  GI-N2K wp1 results (supply vs. demand of GI teaching): ● Un-harmonized GI course descriptions (supply side) and learning needs (demand side) ● Little awareness of GI Body of Knowledge  BoKOnto version of GI Body of Knowledge created in US  Looking for a course about Linked Data basics: not easy  Data Quality, fitness-for-use perspective: tell me what I need to know  Existence of Booking.com for hotel accommodation: applicable to teaching offers? 2

My objective  Make it easier to find GI teaching offers  Promote the use of a standard to describe GI-teaching to improve comparability  Promote a tool for that: the Curriculum Design Tool  Support the EU objective to look abroad for learning 3

Idea: GI course portal website  If: Wide use of Curriculum Design Tool  Then: Many harmonized GI course descriptions  If also mentioned for each course: ● Language(s) of instruction ● E-learning available ( e.g. MOOC) ● Organisational details (e.g. ECTS, EQF , fee, timetable)  Then: Teaching offers might attract participants from abroad  All this could be presented on a portal website 4

Example  Good enough? 6

Questions Exam ple good enough? • Organisational aspects: present • Course content description: No use of GI BoK concepts • Completeness: limited (focus seems to be on oil exploration domain, Salzburg GI teaching not mentioned) So: Example is not yet perfect for the GI domain. Assuming the query was OK, the data must be the problem 6

Course names from 2014 survey selection from 230 entries: less informative names Methods and Techniques Basic Advanced Community Expert program Midden kader functionaris Landmeten Cursd Expert Universitarien SIG nbmb Curso de Postgrado Aplicacindelos SIG en Arqueologa Ruimtelijke informatiekunde 1 data en Einfuhrung in GIS cartografie Experto GIS ArcGIs gv SIGQGIS SIG AVANZADO Geoweb nouveaux enjeux nouveaux SISGEO-INFO usages GERI2 Techniki Pozyskiwania Danych Obrazowych GIS und Geodatenbanken Grundlagen der Geoinformatik TSSIG Technicien Supérieur en SIG Ingénieur Agronome specialisation Umwelt-und Geoinformations systeme agrogéomatique 7

Better data W hich details of any teaching offer does GI need? 2 reference models are relevant: • For organisational aspects: Metadata for Learning Opportunities • For GI domain content: GI-BoK, latest version 8

Organisational Reference: M etadata for L earning O pportunities Missing: teaching type (online, instructor led) ...... ftp://ftp.cenorm.be/PUBLIC/CWAs/e- Europe/WS-LT/CWA15903-00-2008-Dec.pdf 9

Content Reference 1 American development: BoKOnto H http: / / gistbok.org/ bokwiki/ index.html DiBiase et al., 2006 Ahearn & Skupin, 2015 10

Content Reference 2 Based on Am. developments European development H GI-N2K prj: Virtual Lab for the BoK DiBiase et al., 2006 Hossain, 2014 11

The GI-N2K VirLaBoK work produced the Curriculum Design Tool 12 Version: June 14, 2016

Search and result If descriptions of GI teaching offers were based on the mentioned data models, looking for GI courses might be like this: Search for a GI course Found GI courses: Filter on these values: 1 . Course title + description Subject GI -BoK tags GI -BoK tags EQF level ECTS size Teaching Level EQF level Org. nam e Language tag( s) Teaching Place Study load ECTS credits Tim etable Dist. Learning Y/ N Course fee Teaching Org. Type Univ., Coll., SME Teaching Language Language code 2 . Course title + description Fee € range class GI -BoK tags EQF level ECTS size Starting Date Month / Year Org. nam e Language tag( s) Teaching Place Teaching Type Class / Online Tim etable Dist. Learning Y/ N Course fee 3 . Course title + description 13

Portal website Ideal: Each course provider publishes course data, in accordance with the ref. models for org. and content, on a website. At least in CSV-format ( open data) Better: as Linked Data in a SPARQL db on URI ( ) The course data is not in one big central db, but stays at the home website. The Portal website facilitates to query all course provider web sites and show all results found at those websites. Fictional data link example: < http: / / x.org/ 2016# Edu> < http: / / MLO.org/ def# offer> < http: / / MLO.org/ LO# GIScourse> 14

Happy course seeker ! 15