[Oer-community] OER mapping - Let's eat our own dogfood

Tue Nov 13 10:24:03 MST 2012

Hi All,

Let's not forget the all-important communications that has to happen while
the OER map is being developed....

In development projects, there is usually a significant lag time between
conception to implementation - and a fully-tested, functional solution.

- Randy

Glad to see such an burst of OER energy around the planet!

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Ken Allgood <ken.allgood at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to second Ken Udas' recommendation regarding an expansion of the
> mapping exercise to include not only the geographical relationships of
> initiatives and programs, but to also introduce more robust tagging
> approach which supports other meaningful relationships such as reuse,
> funding, program or specialty affiliation, etc..
>
> This sort of visualization can support everything from funding & policy
> decisions to alignment and prioritization of activities.
>
> Excellent Idea Ken!
>
> Ken Allgood
> RDG/SemantixLab
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Ken Udas <ken.udas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1.   *Would a world map to visualize the global OER landscape be useful?*
>>
>> Hello - Yes, I believe that this would be quite useful.  I am wondering
>> if geographical mapping is just one of many potential visualizations. That
>> is, with appropriate tagging of projects, consumers, creators, other
>> stakeholders, activities, and artifacts the representations could become
>> quite adaptable and useful. For example, patterns of reuse, funding impact,
>> and disciplinary contributions could be helpful for practitioners, policy
>> makers, and funders.
>>
>>
>> Cheers - Ken Udas
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Tel Amiel <tel.amiel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hi all -
>>>
>>> mapping will be useful (no matter how roughly) because it opens up the
>>> OER scenario beyond the well known players and well established projects.
>>> it has been incredibly useful for us in brazil to map small and local
>>> initiatives and connecting these to larger projects. many times these
>>> projects do not gain visibility to others who most need to know of them.
>>>
>>> i agree with martin that the meso/micro layer is more interesting. i
>>> also think that identifying projects in multiple locations
>>> (multinational/lingual project) can be fairly easy to do and will clearly
>>> demonstrate how much collaboration influences OER work.
>>>
>>> we do need to define clearly what "fits" in the map (people? projects?
>>> repositories? initiatives?) and concurring with wayne, keep the system open
>>> to input (and mediated).
>>>
>>> we have begun listing many projects and repositories in portuguese (
>>> http://educacaoaberta.org/wiki) both in brazil and beyond, and would be
>>> interested in contributing this material to the mapping initiative.
>>>
>>> cheers - tel
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13/11/2012, at 00:19, Steve Foerster wrote:
>>>
>>> > Wayne Mackintosh wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> * 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.
>>> >
>>> > These are excellent points.  Any output of such an initiative should
>>> > adhere to them.
>>> >
>>> > -=Steve=-
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
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