[R-sig-Geo] Course announcement: Geostatistics & Open-source statistical computing

[D G Rossiter]

Tom,

Thanks for the information.

I guess there are different learning styles. I do not enjoy watching video lectures so I don't inflict them on the students in my distance education course that I am publicizing here (http://www.itc.nl/personal/rossiter/teach/degeostats.html). I don't even watch "professional" lectures such as TED. In my course I do have short motivational videos of about 3 minutes per lesson (8 of these) just so people can feel they know me, but then everything is by slides that they study at their own pace, with self-study questions every few slides (with answers hyperlinked in the PDF -- prepared with PDFLaTeX and package hypperef, of course) to check that they are on the right track. For me, distance education is by its nature asychronic, which is nice for people who have different speeds or techniques of learning/reviewing. That's why the course puts so much emphasis on the R exercises.

Maybe it's because I don't like the sound of my own voice nor the looks of my own face... "on the internet, no one knows you're a dog" as the New Yorker cartoon had it.


David Rossiter
http://www.itc.nl/personal/rossiter

On 11 Nov2011, at 12:00, r-sig-geo-request at r-project.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:29:43 +0100
> From: Tomislav Hengl <hengl at spatial-analyst.net>
> To: "r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch" <r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Cc: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Course announcement: Geostatistics &
>        Open-source statistical computing
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>
> Hi David,
>
> If this can be of any help, at GEOSTAT we started recording/broadcasting
> all lectures (this was an excellent idea of Ralf Sch?fer and his team at
> Landau). We used the software called Team Viewer
> (http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/tv6.aspx). The result was pretty
> good:
>
> http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=GEOSTAT%20Landau
>
> *as far as I remember, we did not even buy any license. You only need 1
> extra PC, a web-cam and a wireless mic. This is really a minor
> investment all together.
>
> At the next GEOSTAT summer school we will try even harder to provide
> high quality broadcast (and public access of course).
>
> (and thanks for preparing all those materials - I did already hear many
> good stories about your course).
>
> cheers,
>
> T. Hengl
> http://www.wewur.wur.nl/popups/vcard.aspx?id=HENGL001






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