[Oer-community] A reflection

[Germain-Rutherford, Aline]

And, even more than just  "encouraging neighbouring institutions to develop their own OER awareness and initiatives", another positive outcome of this mapping exercise would be to encourage cooperation between neighbouring institutions, sharing expertise and strengths to develop OER in a dynamic of complementarity.

Just a thought…

Aline

Aline Germain-Rutherford, Ph.D,
Associate Vice President for Language Schools
and Graduate Programs
Director of French School
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753


From: Fred Mednick <fred at twb.org<mailto:fred at twb.org>>
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:17:26 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Oer-community] A reflection

I 100% agree


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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Craig Agnew <Craig.Agnew at nmit.ac.nz<mailto:Craig.Agnew at nmit.ac.nz>> wrote:
Just to throw in my two cents...
On a simpler level, highlighting the geographical location of where OER innovations are occurring could act as a catalyst for encouraging neighbouring (and often competing) institutions to develop their own OER awareness and initiatives. This can only help to grow the community.


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Just two points I would like to make:

1.  An OER map could serve to educate those outside this community about the breadth and depth of the movement.

2.  There are tools such as those used by the public health community to report outbreaks, that could make self reporting possible, thereby making it easier to keep the map up to date.

Susan albright
Director,
Technology for learning in the health sciences Tufts university

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On Nov 14, 2012, at 11:09 PM, "Mark Bullen" <mbullen at col.org<mailto:mbullen at col.org>> wrote:

> Helen:
> I'm glad you asked that question because I have also been struggling
> to understand what the practical outcome of an OER map would be, how
> it would advance the "movement" and how it would help practitioners -
> the teachers who are trying to locate, evaluate and integrate OER into
> their teaching. The benefits that Susan lists all make sense to me but
> I guess I don't fully understand what the map would actually be. Is
> it, for example, intended to be a kind of meta-repository? I share
> your concern about investing a lot of energy in trying to devise
> technical solutions without a clear identification of the problem.
>
> Mark.
>
>
> Mark Bullen, Ph.D.
> Education Specialist - eLearning
> Commonwealth of Learning
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> [mailto:oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca<mailto:oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca>] On Behalf Of Lentell,
> Helen M.
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 1:57 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Oer-community] A reflection
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
> Interesting conversation. But I am reminded of a comment made some
> years ago in the distance learning community, it was this: if
> technology is the answer what is the question? Following on from this:
> if mapping OERs is the answer what is the educational problem we are
> trying to address?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Helen
>
> Helen Lentell
> University Fellow in Distance Learning Centre for Labour Market
> Studies Ken Edwards Building University Road Leicester LE1 7RH UK
>
> helen.lentell at le.ac.uk<mailto:helen.lentell at le.ac.uk>
> ________________________________________
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> [oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca<mailto:oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca>] On Behalf Of Susan D'Antoni
> [susandantoni at gmail.com<mailto:susandantoni at gmail.com>]
> Sent: 14 November 2012 17:10
> To: oer-community at athabascau.ca<mailto:oer-community at athabascau.ca>
> Subject: [Oer-community] A reflection
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> This has been a most energetic start to our discussion of mapping the
> landscape of OER initiatives.  To see this OER community spring into
> action again is such a pleasure after being in contact with many of
> you since 2005.
>
> And like our colleague, Saul Fisher, I too was at the 2002 meeting at
> UNESCO when the Term Open Educational Resources came into being and
> like him "find the progress in OER over the decade "beyond my wildest hopes".
>
> Maps are "powerful representations for creating, representing and
> visualizing open knowledge" (Ale Okada) but no, there has been no
> decision taken anywhere that we will create an OER world map (Sandra
> Schosn concern).
>
> In the discussion so far, there have been a number of points made
> about the potential benefits of a visual map of the OER landscape -
> such as -
>
> *   serve as a gateway
> *   make more initiatives visible beyond the well-known ones
> *   identify initiatives operating in different languages
> *   help find OER
> *   identify the OER community
> *   foster new collaboration and cooperative efforts
>
> But there have been some concerns expressed - such as -
>
> *   it is a big task so it needs to be a simple map
> *   it needs to be self sustaining
> *   It is tempting to collect too much data
> *   it needs to be carefully structured and organized
> *   we need to define or classify initiatives
>
> The point about sustainability and the need to keep it simple are good
> points to bear in mind.  I had the privilege (because I was not
> trained as a statistician) of working at Statistics Canada, a fine
> statistical agency.  I learned a lot, but one thing that stuck with me
> was the extremely high cost of collecting information and the
> importance of "essential" data, not "nice to have".  It truly is a
> temptation to want more and morre information.  But if we aimed to
> describe the global OER landscape, then the amount of information to
> begin building an OER world map might best be what we consider absolutely essential.  Discipline!
>
> Let's keep the two lists of pros and concerns in mind as we continue
> this train of discussion.  Then let's move on to considering what
> essential information might be for an initial mapping exercise.
>
> Lovely conversation,
>
> Susan
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