[Oer-community] A Global OER map?

[Roy Williams]

Just a thought - different domains (geographical, topic, discipline,
educational sector (kindergarten, primary etc) might be useful. 


But ...


As maps or as tagsonomies?  I would go for a tagsonomy, with some
suggested 'domain' suggestions, along the lines above.  (Geographical
maps can be generated from tagsonomies, if they include geographical
data). 


Roy 

>>> Sarah Kirn  13/11/12 3:00 PM >>>
Dear OER community,

I'm generally in favor of efforts that create coordination and open
possibility for collaboration – those are all good things and worthy of
investing time and resources. I have two thoughts about this map/these
maps:


  1.  A geography-based map might be most helpful for us, the creators
of OER content, such that we can find one another and collaborate, share
best practices, solve common problems.
  2.  Topic- or discipline-based maps might be more useful to the
consumers of OER… The nature of OER is that it doesn't matter from where
(geographically) a resource comes. OER consumers are looking for the
right resource to fit their learning (or teaching) need.

I think a bit of work up front to determine the use cases for these maps
(who will use them and in what context) would be time well spent. And
perhaps the same database can drive multiple maps?

Just a thought. Forgive me if others in the conversation have said the
same or if I misconstrued the point of the effort.

Cheers,
Sarah
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Sarah Kirn
Vital Signs Program Manager
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
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Portland, ME 04101 USA
phone: (207) 228-1631 (direct)
fax: (207) 772-6855
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From: "f.mashayekh" >
Reply-To: "f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir" >, oer-community >
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 5:18 AM
To: oer-community >
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] A Global OER map?

Dear Susan,

"Yes",as a member of OER initiative project,I think it is helpful to
have access to A Global OER map. And ,may I add,if this map could be
developed  following HCI measures,and defined thematic s,it will be more
helpful.

warm regards,



Farideh Mashayekh
Strategic consultant in educational planning & pedagogy
http://www.pedagogy.ir/


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From: "Tunde Ipaye" >
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:44 AM
To: "oer-community" >
Subject: [Oer-community] A Global OER map?

Dear Susan and ALL,
I am happy to be part of this epoch making discussion.

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

My simple answer is "Yes" It has many advantages one of which is that
the map will help others know what is available in which country
I believe that Sandara in paragraph 3 of her contributions had made
one of the strongest cases so far for the need for OER global map.
She said,


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.

Individuals are known to have dual-citizenships. The project can
thus have multiple –citizenship if the global oer map comes into
effect. Second, OER is about collaboration, hence her example gives
a lot of hope in terms of design and development of oer by citizens/
scholars from various nationalities working on same project, academics
sharing lecture notes etc on same topic, or course across the globe
thus enabling students, learners, researchers from different countries
to share, re-use and remix ideas . Third the issue of language
barrier, I could see Sandra’s project been translated simultaneously
into the native languages of the p
articipants from the five countries.
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