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GIS Lounge have a good summary of a Gentle Introduction to GIS, a PDF manual and accompanying datasets for use with QGIS. Sponsored by the Department of Land Affairs, Eastern Cape, South Africa, it covers the main introductory conceptual areas and provides examples. Its not going to win any writing awards, but it is nice and succinct. In that sense it complements the book from MapAction which covers somewhat similar ground for MapWindow.

With my educational hat back on, it will be interesting to see how schools around the world start picking up on these resources. Certainly in the UK the market is wide open with schools starting to look at software. Both QGIS and MapWindow could fill this introductory niche very nicely.