[Oer-community] Oer-community Digest, Vol 9, Issue 14

[JAYA DEVI APPADOO]

Hi All,
I find it very interesting to read about your views concerning OER. As
an educator , I
find that OER will certainly help me in developing better lessons at
school. I can also share resources with my colleagues and friends.I
must say that the OER movement is doing a great job.
In Mauritius much emphasis is being laid on the use of technology in
teaching and learning. Educators have to look out  for digital
resources to complement their lessons in class. The use of the
interactive whiteboards in classrooms has made it possible to use  a
wide variety of resources.
A global OER map will certainly be helpful to us educators as we would
be able to locate the OER we need more easily.
Regards,
Jaya

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>    1. Re: OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to Week 1
>       (Barbara Dieu)
>    2. Re: A Global OER map? (Sarah Kirn)
>    3. OER World Map (Paul Stacey)
>    4. Re: OER mapping - Let's eat our own dogfood (Ken Udas)
>    5. Re: A Global OER map? (Richard Watson)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:34:48 -0200
> From: Barbara Dieu <beeonline at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Oer-community] OER mapping - Welcome and introduction to
> 	Week 1
> To: oer-community <oer-community at athabascau.ca>
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> I believe an  OER map by country would be interesting to highlight and link
> to the different institutions (+ contact names)  that are developing them
> (maybe also showing when it's a joint project with other partners)
> Another map could be done for the actual resources (with percentages) - the
> criteria then would not be geographical but categories like language,
> topics , level of difficulty,  licenses could be used.
>
> Best regards,
> Barbara
>
>
> --
> Barbara Dieu
> http://barbaradieu.com
> http://beespace.net
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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:00:20 +0000
> From: Sarah Kirn <sarah at gmri.org>
> Subject: Re: [Oer-community] A Global OER map?
> To: "f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir" <f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir>,	oer-community
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> 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
> --
>
> Sarah Kirn
> Vital Signs Program Manager
> Gulf of Maine Research Institute
> 350 Commercial Street
> Portland, ME 04101 USA
> phone: (207) 228-1631 (direct)
> fax: (207) 772-6855
> sarah at gmri.org
> www.vitalsignsme.org
> www.gmri.org
>
> From: "f.mashayekh"
> <f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir<mailto:f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir>>
> Reply-To: "f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir<mailto:f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir>"
> <f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir<mailto:f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir>>, oer-community
> <oer-community at athabascau.ca<mailto:oer-community at athabascau.ca>>
> Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 5:18 AM
> To: oer-community
> <oer-community at athabascau.ca<mailto:oer-community at athabascau.ca>>
> 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/
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Tunde Ipaye" <bipaye at gmail.com<mailto:bipaye at gmail.com>>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:44 AM
> To: "oer-community"
> <oer-community at athabascau.ca<mailto:oer-community at athabascau.ca>>
> 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 participants from the five countries.
> Yes, a global OER map will be useful
> --
> Professor Babatunde Ipaye
> Educo-Health Project
> 234-803-310-1920
> 234-805-310-1919
>
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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:44:17 -0800
> From: Paul Stacey <pstacey at creativecommons.org>
> Subject: [Oer-community] OER World Map
> To: "Susan D'Antoni" <susandantoni at gmail.com>,
> 	oer-community at athabascau.ca
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> Susan:
>
> Susan:
>
> I think an OER world map could be very useful, particularly if it reveals
> pertinent characteristics of the OER.
>
> A geographical map shows distinguishing attributes of a physical location -
> cities, towns, roads, railways, rivers, lakes, ?
>
> An OER map could show:
> - url where OER are publicly available
> - OER language
> - OER license (Creative Commons, public domain, ?)
> - quantity of OER available
> - type of OER (such as courses, modules, textbooks, assessments,
> simulations, ?)
> - academic level such as K-12, higher education, vocational trades,
> workplace, ?
> - credential OER is part of (Bachelors, Certificate, Diploma, badge, ?)
> - OER fields of study such as business, health, arts, science, ?
> - subject area of OER within a field of study eg. Science - biology,
> physics, chemistry, ?
>
> Even more useful would be an OER world map of the existing and desired
> network of an OER.
> This map would differentiate between:
> - Single entity produced OER (MIT, UKOU, ?)
> - Regional consortia produced OER (Open Course Library, TESSA, ...)
> - Globally developed OER (Wikieducators OCL4Ed course)
> Ideally overlaid on top of this would be an indication of which OER are
> seeking co-developers and which are simply being produced for others to use
> without interest in co-development.
> If an OER world map can lead to greater partnerships among OER
> developers/users that would be a great outcome.
>
> --
> Paul Stacey
> Creative Commons
> (e) pstacey at creativecommons.org
> (w) http://creativecommons.org
> (me) http://creativecommons.org/staff#paulstacey
> (blog) http://edtechfrontier.com
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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:33:06 -0600
> From: Ken Udas <ken.udas at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Oer-community] OER mapping - Let's eat our own dogfood
> To: oer-community <oer-community at athabascau.ca>
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> 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=-
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Stephen H. Foerster
>> > steve at hiresteve.com
>> > http://hiresteve.com
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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:56:47 -0500
> From: Richard Watson <rickwatson at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [Oer-community] A Global OER map?
> To: oer-community <oer-community at athabascau.ca>
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> Hi
>
> I find it hard to support a geographic map, as I have always seen that a
> secondary goal of OER is to overcome the disadvantages of geography by
> making educational resources freely available to everyone, irrespective of
> location.
>
> I think resources would be better spent on creating a single OER database
> with items catalogued using a system such as Universal Decimal
> Classification (UDC) so that we address the fundamental location problem --
> locating a resource rather than the geographic source of a resource. We
> might be able to get some librarians to volunteer to catalog material.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rick
>
> Global Text Project
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Sarah Kirn <sarah at gmri.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> --
>>
>> Sarah Kirn
>> Vital Signs Program Manager
>> Gulf of Maine Research Institute
>> 350 Commercial Street
>> Portland, ME 04101 USA
>> phone: (207) 228-1631 (direct)
>> fax: (207) 772-6855
>> sarah at gmri.org
>> www.vitalsignsme.org
>> www.gmri.org
>>
>> From: "f.mashayekh"
>> <f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir<mailto:f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir>>
>> Reply-To: "f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir<mailto:f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir>"
>> <f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir<mailto:f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir>>, oer-community
>> <oer-community at athabascau.ca<mailto:oer-community at athabascau.ca>>
>> Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 5:18 AM
>> To: oer-community
>> <oer-community at athabascau.ca<mailto:oer-community at athabascau.ca>>
>> 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/
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: "Tunde Ipaye" <bipaye at gmail.com<mailto:bipaye at gmail.com>>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 3:44 AM
>> To: "oer-community"
>> <oer-community at athabascau.ca<mailto:oer-community at athabascau.ca>>
>> 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 participants from the five countries.
>> Yes, a global OER map will be useful
>> --
>> Professor Babatunde Ipaye
>> Educo-Health Project
>> 234-803-310-1920
>> 234-805-310-1919
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Oer-community mailing list
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>> https://deimos.cs.athabascau.ca/mailman/listinfo/oer-community
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