[Oer-community] Messages that skipped the list address

[Susan D'Antoni]

Dear colleagues,

We had a technical problem, hopefully solved now, that sent reply messages
to me not the list.  Here are two messages that were intended for the list.

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From: Steve Foerster <steve at hiresteve.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to Week
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To: Susan D'Antoni <susandantoni at gmail.com>


Susan wrote:

> 1.Would a world map to visualize the global OER landscape be
> useful?  (example below created from OCWC data)

Maybe, but the more basic question is what problems exist for which such a
map would be a solution.  What can we as a movement not accomplish
currently that we would be able to accomplish with such a map?

I also wonder where certain initiatives would go on such a map.
WikiEducator, for example, is funded by organizations in Canada and the
U.S., headquartered at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, and has
participants all over the world.  Where would its pin go?  Does it make
sense to put it in New Zealand if the plurality of its active participants
are in India?


> 2.Could the OER community work in collaboration to design,
> build and maintain such a map?

If so, I wonder whether a map itself should be the goal, or whether the
goal should better be a comprehensive database of information about OER
initiatives that would facilitate all sorts of reports about the OER
movement, one of which would be a map.  (Let me know if the difference is
unclear.)

Cheers,

-=Steve=-


-- 
Stephen H. Foerster
steve at hiresteve.com
http://hiresteve.com
http://wikieducator.org/steve

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----------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Rittenhouse <robrittenhouse at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to Week
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To: Susan D'Antoni <susandantoni at gmail.com>


Not sure how useful a map of physical locations are. Adding languages the
resource is available in would seem useful.
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