E-learning SINFOGEO is an e-learning platform about Geographic Information Technologies, with the aim to offer a better, practical and useful knowledge of the Geo Technologies to our students.

1. Sinfogeo Formación:
a new e-learning paradigm
New e-learning possibilities in Geographic
Information Technologies
E-learning, FOSS4G and Open Data
jimena martinez. Sinfogeo SL junio de 2010

2. 1
Scope
• Few resources, non practical information, privative
Existing learning geo resources
software
• A lot of text, as manuals, not practical and use cases
E-learning
examples
Methods • Old fashioned and not adequated
• High theoretical knowledge
• Low practical knowledge
Our experience in company´s
• Not appropriate knowledge for real cases
projects • Low skills to solve problems
• Lack of resources

3. 2
Basis of the idea
Alternative
Not
Online
expensive
To offer GEO
e-learning Based on
Free and
our real
Open Source
experience
Software
in projects
Open Data
and real Teachers and
problems to trainers
solve

4. 3
Development of the idea
System based on free and open source software
Documentation E-learning
Server Web Contents
Manager platform
Linux Apache MySQL PHP Joomla! Alfresco Moodle Scorm OpenOffice

5. 4
Methodology
Grants, scholarships and discounts
Affordable
Grants from the Government
E-learning Free schedule
Free enrolment
Online courses Divided in units
Types
Online workshops and webinars Self learning
Design Based on graphics, no plain text
Contents Multimedia contents Videos, images, graphs
Practical use cases Open Data and real use cases

6. 5
Teachers, communications and grades
Proffesionals on each
Communications Grades Support for job seeking
subject
Personal supervision Help for job seeking
Contents development • Skype in GEO field
• Crossloop Quizs • APROSERS
Foro, chats
Supervision Integration of
students in Sinfogeo
Facebook
Projects
Twitter Offline use
cases
Good laboral Specific courses for
conditions projects
Flickr

7. 6
More about the e-learning system
Developing a
News on Grant´s International Make our use cases Developing new free
Plan Market useful courses OpenStreetMap
workshop
PostGIS
South America and Help NGOs to
Africa grants Courses translation
develop their
projects through our Geoserver
use cases
Mapserver
NGOs collaboration
Publishing maps on
the web
QGis
Grass

8. 7
The web and the platform
E-learning
Web:
platform
www.sinfogeo.es www.sinfogeo.es/moodle
jimena.martinez@sinfogeo.es