[Oer-community] OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to Week 1

[Ricardo]

Dear ones from OER,

 

I personally impressed by the relevance of this discussion on OER  world mapping.

I’m from Togo, a French speaking country. What I’ve noticed, is OER was born in English speaking countries. But today, we can see OER everywhere. As an example, TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa) has been in touch with Togo in 2009. And till now we continue working on its implementation and it institutionalization. But on the way, we had to look at TESSA  OERs from many countries in order to adapt the row OER to our realities. 

I think a the map would help in such situation. And it will be easy to contact people working on OER and share more Knowledge. 

The main difficulty we encounter here in Togo is the lack of devices that would facilitate a lot the spray of OER. I’m also working also with APRELI at . 

The global mapping then will provide us what is specifically happening in terms of OER at a specific place in the world and what are the challenges.

 

All the best,

 

Richard Kossi Agbogan
Formateur des formateurs, Section mathématiques, 

Coordonnateur d'APRELI at au Togo

Direction des Formations

Université de Lomé
BP: 1306, Lomé, Togo
Tél.: (+228) 9035 4252

www.tessafrica.net

www.apreli at .org

 

 

 

De : oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca [mailto:oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca] De la part de Sandra Schön
Envoyé : Monday, November 12, 2012 20:06
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Objet : Re: [Oer-community] OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to Week 1

 

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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