<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hello list,<br></span></div><div><span>a gvSIG & Sextante eLearning module has been set up in UNIGIS (Universität Salzburg, Centre of Geoinformatics, Austria) in order to provide the breadth of experience and knowledge necessary to work with gvSIG & Sextante. It focuses on practical knowledge and required skills to work with gvSIG in real situations.<br>For the course to be successful, it is essential that the study packs are of a consistently high quality. The UNIGIS course material undergoes regular quality checking within the UNIGIS team<br>The Module contains a range of learning strategies to develop independent learning skills. It is a distance learning study programme. Students will be encouraged to research topics beyond the scope and to develop informal self-help networks, but the packs provide all
necessary material for the module. If students have any questions regarding the contents, they will contact the tutor by email.</span></div>The module Tutor is Ruth Schönbuchner (ruth.schoenbuchner@csgis.de), who has logged hundreds of hours teaching gvSIG. She has being working on the gvSIG Project during the last four and a half years making documentation, workshops, presentations, tutorials, handbooks, translations, reporting bugs, etc.<br><div><span>Victor Olaya (main developer of Sextante, http://sextante.forge.osor.eu/) and Benjamin Ducke (main developer of gvSIG CE, http://gvsigce.org/) will attend to her as much as they can. Please consider they are not the main tutors of the module, so we can not expect they will answer your questions directly.<br>The assessment schemes are designed to conform 3 ECTS (approximately 90 hours of learning experience). You will have to complete assignments of 9 lessons.<br>The fee of the module for those who are
not UNIGIS students is 119 €. The Course will be taught in german. <br>Please visit<br>http://csgis.de/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=149&Itemid=152,download and fill the application form and tick either one of the options to start (17.10.2011 or 06.03.2012) if you have decided to learn more about gvSIG & Sextante with us.<br>Within 5 working days, you will get a notification via email that we have received your application.<br>Contact www.csgis.de for further information.</span></div><div><span>Best regards</span></div><div><span>Jose Canalejo</span></div><div> </div><div>--<br>José Antonio Canalejo Alonso<br>CSGIS<br>Email:jose.canalejo@csgis.de<br>Web: http://www.csgis.de</div></div></body></html>