[Oer-community] Oer-mapping: voice from Finland
Senishch Alona
alona.senishch at aalto.fi
Tue Nov 13 03:22:28 MST 2012
Dear All:
I have been active in promoting OERs in Finland for the last 7 years. As a university teacher I both create and use OERs for teaching. As a PhD researcher I investigate the potential of OER for changing teacher's practices. From either perspective, I am confident that centralized OER mapping effort is needed. My colleagues, students and research respondents frequently comment that scattered OER initiatives scare them away from using OERs. I do not know to which extent (financially first of all) OER world mapping initiative can go, but I wonder whether it is possible to create a site that would not only map the existing OCWs but would rather be a SEARCH ENGINE for OERs that can be retrived from OCWs around the world (e.g. by subject at least).
With best virtual regards,
Alona
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:55:36 +0400
From: Prakash Cyparsad <cyparsad777 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Oer-community] could the oer community work to collaborate
to design build and maintain such a map
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Hi everybody ,
I'm a Mauritian Primary school Educator who joined the OER - community upon
request of my lecturer since i am working on a BSc module called OER and
technologies at the University of Mauritius.
Till recently oer was something new to me though i have been in the
teaching profession since 18 years .Before forwarding my views on this
issue I would like to point out the fundamental principle of Oer movement
" the world?s knowledge is a public good "
As a reply to the above question I would like to say yes, it is possible
for several reasons.
1. Its our responsibility as educators to share knowledge and
experiences with our students for a more prosperous nation .
2. The world has turned into a small village thanks to communication (
internet ). there is no extra cost required to realise such a map.
3. working in collaboration with people over the globe will make
everyone open-minded .
4. Collaborative work , designing and building such a map will fasten
friendship ties of the oer - community.
5. The map will regularly keep contact work on issues and produce free
resources for everybody to use .
Regards
pradipsing cyparsad .
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:22:01 +0100
From: Sandra Sch?n <sandra.schoen at salzburgresearch.at>
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to
Week 1
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Cc: Martin Ebner <martin.ebner at tugraz.at>
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Dear Susan and All,
additionally:
within L3T we developed a map of all authors within this OER project
http://l3t.eu/homepage/framed/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fl3t.tugraz.at%2F~mb%2F
and we visualised the downloads of our chapters in a map:
http://l3t.tugraz.at/~mb/unis.php
if this is interesting for you, please contact martin.ebner at tugraz.at
best wishes,
Sandra
Am 12.11.12 21:06, schrieb Sandra Sch?n:
> Dear Susan and All,
>
>> 1. Would a world map to visualize the global OER landscape be
>> useful? (example below created from OCWC data)
>>
> To be frankly: I do not see that a map of OER projects, repositories
> etc. is the most useful and wanted thing. Of course, a collection, an
> extended list would be useful, a search function great and some ideas
> to illustrate this collections and lists would be great.
>
> I hesitate to promote a *map* because from my opinion, the idea of
> mapping means that there is a need to decide the origin and/or
> workload of OER projects, even if its sometimes a multinational
> community, a multinational funding, a multinational cooperation etc.
> (Perhaps this argumentation is not very common in the US ;-)
>
> In my "own OER" project L3T (an open scientific textbook on e-learning
> in German language, http://l3t.eu) we have co-authors from Germany,
> Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands and Greek ... I don't have a clue
> where to add it in your map. Personally, I live in Germany and work in
> Austria. Even more important seems (for me) that this is a project in
> German language. Eventually, it would be helpful for others to get an
> idea about the topic and materials.
>
> Only the political issue (which country pays/funds how much in OER
> projects and materials) seems - IMHO - interesting and also important
> for political discussions, esp. for UNESCO and Co.
>
> Additionally - I guess the idea to develop a map is already
> established ;-) - I want to point to an existing list within the
> Wikieducator.org, once established within the OLCOS project (the first
> project on OER funded by the European Commission).
>
> Here it is: http://wikieducator.org/Open_Educational_Content
>
> BTW: In your map, the wikieducator will be (probably) a NZ project.
> OLCOS was an European project with collaborators (at Wikieducator.org)
> from NZ. I'm not able to decide where to locate it (in our time of
> networked worldwide cooperations).
>
> Kind regards, best wishes,
> Sandra
>
>
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:57:12 +1300
From: Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wayne at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] OER mapping - Let's eat our own dogfood
To: "Susan D'Antoni" <susandantoni at gmail.com>,
oer-community at athabascau.ca
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Hi Susan, and open mapping enthusiasts
1. *Would a world map to visualize the global OER landscape be useful?*
I think that visualising geographic data of the OER landscape would be
useful and I'm very supportive of the concept. I think we need to be clear
about the purposes for the geographic visualisations we aim to generate.
As mentioned by Steve Foerster, international peer-collaborative and
networked open education projects present unique challenges in terms of
geographic associations and activity.
By way of example, the Open Content Licensing for
Educators<http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/Home>
(OCL4Ed) free online workshop initiative may illustrate some of the
challenges of where or how to place the pin on a world map. We have another
iteration of OCL4Ed starting on 3 December 2012. Registrations are
open<http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/About>and
already +33 countries are participating. With reference to geographic
locations for the OCL4Ed initiative as a global OER project:
- *Original funding* support for developing the materials was provided
by the UNESCO Office for the Pacific States. As a regional office, should
we attribute the location to all the Pacific States on the map?
- *Course development* was done openly and collaboratively involving
volunteers from the WikiEducator community (International), Creative
Commons (International), Open Courseware Consortium (International). Do we
restrict the mapping locations to the individuals who actually contributed
to the development or the geographic reach of these international
organisations?
- *Operational funding *as an ongoing longitudinal initiative. We are
now presenting the fourth iteration of the OCL4Ed series of free workshops.
Each iteration we have volunteer facilitators from different regions of the
world participating. The major sponsorship in terms of funding is provided
by the OER Foundation. While our registered headoffice is in New Zealand,
we work internationally but source membership contributions from 20
different countries.
- *Global reach of participating learners* -- while we have only
served 2000 learners so far -- our data indicates that participants have
come from +90 countries.
OCL4Ed is just one small OER project building capability in Copyright, OERs
and Creative Commons licensing, but it has a wide international footprint.
Placing a pin in Otago in New Zealand because the headoffice of the OER
Foundation is based there would hardly tell the story. I'm sure there are
countless international OER projects where the layers of complexity in
terms of visualising the geographic data will increase by an order
of magnitude.
In dealing with this level of complexity, I think we should eat our own
dogfood <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food> and find
rough consensus on the core principles which could underpin a global OER
mapping exercise, for example:
- Open data -- for example, all participants contributing to the
mapping exercise should dedicate the data to the public domain.
- Open licensing of the visualisations - the outputs should be freely
available with the 4R permissions.
- Open APIs and standards -- contributing data sets which adhere to open
APIs and open standards to maximise reuse
- Open source -- Where possible to use visualisation technologies which
would not exclude users who can't afford non-free software or choose not to
sacrifice their freedoms regarding technology choices
- Open innovation -- ie where we might promote an open process for the
global community to innovate multiple ways to visualise our collective data
-- rather than prescribing any particular visualisation.
Agreeing the foundational principles will assist in taking decisions about
technologies, approaches and solutions later down the track.
We also need to think carefully about privacy issues with reference to
tracking geographic information without express permissions from those
contributing the data.
In short, as an open community - -we should eat our own dogfood and build
on open foundations.
Cheers
Wayne
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Director OER Foundation <http://www.oerfoundation.org>
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Commonwealth of Learning Chair in OER, Otago Polytechnic
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