[Oer-community] Oer-community Digest, Vol 9, Issue 15

Shab Mimi shabmimi at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 13 23:39:46 MST 2012


Dear Susan and everyone,
My name is Shabnam Husnoo and I’m a student from the University of Mauritius. I’m actually doing a module on OER. As an educator, I strongly believe that mapping the use of OER around the world might be a useful exercise as this will help by proving a big picture of the global OER movement. Educators will be able to use it to find interesting OER materials which they can use in their teaching/learning process. An OER world map will also help to communicate messages visually. To conclude, I would like to say that an OER world map will not only facilitate
effective uses of OER but it will also help in the endorsement of sharing, localizing, adapting and reusing of OER resources.

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Subject: Oer-community Digest, Vol 9, Issue 15
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Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 7:00 PM


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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: A Global OER map? (Roy Williams)
   2. Re: OER mapping - Let's eat our own dogfood (Ken Allgood)
   3. I agree that OERs should be mapped. i also agree that their
      should be an OER search engine for globall access to all the
      resources.Hope we are ni=ot dreaming but critical resources can
      be accessed to make this a reality. (Hollis Sankar)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:32:42 +0000
From: Roy Williams <Roy.Williams at port.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] A Global OER map?
To: oer-community at athabascau.ca, sarah at gmri.org,
    f.mashayekh at pedagogy.ir
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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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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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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:03:59 -0500
From: Ken Allgood <ken.allgood 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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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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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:32:10 -0400
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Subject: [Oer-community] I agree that OERs should be mapped. i also
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