Free GIS workshops, tutorials, and applied learning material

Question

This Q&A lists free as in $0 workshops in GIS and related fields that have their material available to view or download online. The list is not limited to FOSS GIS, as GISers usually use a combination of open and closed source tools to accomplish their tasks. Some of these tools are easier than others and some are better documented. This list will be a great benefit to the community especially for new comers to the field.

General GIS

• GIS Project Video Tutorial on Acquiring, Analyzing, and Mapping US Census Data in QGIS from @A.S
• GIS Tutor: Beginner / Intermediate Level GIS from @radek
• BostonGIS from @simo
• Lectures on GIS for the Social Sciences from @ubernatural

Open-source GIS

• OpenGEO Education Center from @radek
• QGIS Videos (faunitalia) from @simo
• GIS SE Question: Geoserver Tutorials from @com
• GIS SE Question: Open Source Training Materials from @MarkIreland
• QGIS for Newbies from @IanAllan

ESRI Products

• GIS SE Question: Best place for (structured) ArcGIS tutorials from @robintw
• ArcGIS Automation and Programming from @Bethany

Transportation

These links include either theoretical or applied transportation knowledge in transportation planning

• GIS primer for Transportation
• Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual
• UrbanSim: FOSS Urban development, socio economic, and land use planning package
• MOVES(Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator) Workshop and technical background
• Transit GIS tutorials
• Remote sensing in transportation workshop
• Florida's CBT planning model explained

Disaster Management

• Geo-information Technology for Crisis Management

Databases

• Spatial Database Course Material from @radek

Geo Statistics

• Learn R Lectures and Classes
• Geodatabase Mining Course from @radek
• A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping

Answer 1

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• OpenGeo Education Center offers materials focusing mostly on web mapping using PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GeoServer and javascript (OpenLayers and GeoExt)
• Not really a workshop, but GISTutor is good source of begginer/intermediate level tutorials.
• E-Learning materials from Geospatial Data Mining course (eduGI.net - International Network for Education in Geographic Information Science).
• Spatial Databases course materials (School of Computing, Dublin Institute of Technology)
• An introduction to Open Source Geospatial Information Systems - talk by Gavin Jackson @ OSDC 2011
• Broom Spatial R Class notes from Frank Davenport

Answer 2

• The bostongis website provides many tutorials and quick guides regarding PostGIS, SQL Server 2008 and spatial analyses, openlayers, OSM and openlayers and some more.
• The faunitalia youtube channel gives video tutorial regarding Qgis and plugins

Answer 3

Though there may also be other lecture series at different University websites, the UNBC site has some good content, particularly for beginning users:

http://www.gis.unbc.ca/courses/geog204/index.php

Other courses besides GEOG 204 are listed in the menu on the left-hand side.

Along the same lines as academic content (rather than workshops per se, but still useful), Google books has a number of free items related to GIS:

http://www.google.ca/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=gis&btnG=

Answer 4

There's a new Coursera MOOC (starting today, Feb 22nd, 2016) called Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization and is offered by UC Davis.

It's geared towards beginners, and gives participants 1 year license to some ESRI product.

If you're reading this in the future, see if the specialization or any of its courses are given again.