The ICA-OSGeo Lab Network and MundoGEO are now pleased to inform the ninth webinar of the ”Open Geospatial Science & Applications” webinar series. This webinar will be open and free to all on first come register basis.
The QGIS Academy is an effort to establish a national GIS education infrastructure focusing on Free & Open Source Software for GIS (FOSS4G). The Academy is a consortium of two year community colleges and four year universities committed to bringing GIS technical education to students and educators worldwide. We are one of the many projects under the OSGeo “Geo for All” initiative, a collection of 84 college & universities worldwide dedicated to promoting open source geospatial software. The Academy is now offering a new Workforce Certificate in Geospatial Technology based upon a series of five online courses, all based on QGIS software. This presentation will focus on the content, delivery, costs and purpose of this new online course offering.
This event is suitable for secondary school educators and students, two and four year college educators and students, students in need of GIS skills, workers seeking to broaden technology skills and anyone desiring QGIS and open source knowledge and skills.
Speakers: Dr. Phillip Davis, project director, Del Mar College Corpus Christi Texas; Dr. Richard Smith, subject matter expert, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas; Kurt Menke, subject matter expert, owner Birds Eye View GIS, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Dr. John Van Hoesen, subject matter expert, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont.
Attendees will be able to interact with the speakers by sending their comments and questions through chat. All attendees of this web seminar will receive certificates for their participation.
Webinar: Introducing the QGIS Academy Project
Date: Friday, September 5, 2014
Time: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM GMT
Registration: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/128220946
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
MundoGEO Webinars
MundoGEO webinars were created for educational and informational purposes on technologies, cases and trends in the geospatial solutions industry. The webinars offer a simple and fast way for refresher courses, placing the companies, institutions and users in direct contact, without the need to travel.
With over 160 webinars conducted since 2009, MundoGEO has averaged 1,500 registrants and 750 atendees per event. All webinars are recorded and the videos are available a few hours after the seminar, for participants and also for those who could not attend in time. The files, as well as the schedule of upcoming webinars, are available at www.mundogeo.com/webinar.
