Experiences Teaching Free and Open Source GIS at the Community College Level

What's it like to teach using free and open source GIS? Kurt Menke runs his own GIS consulting business in Albuquerque, New Mexico and also teaches at Central New Mexico Community College. He has developed a course called "Introduction to Open Source GIS and Web Mapping." In this article, he describes the impetus behind the course development, details the course content and offers some of the lessons he's learned in the process.