[Oer-community] A simple sample map to look at

Lic. Esperanza Villafuerte evillafuerte at speedy.com.pe
Sun Nov 18 01:53:53 MST 2012


Dear Susan and OER Communitty members.  This is Esperanza Villafuerte, now 
political science postgraduate student here. greetings from Peru.  I really 
can't check and enjoy  this tool, maps are still not accessible for us, 
people with bisual disability.  How ever I think maps provides an important 
support to the initiatives, giving to them additional  value.  I want to 
invite you to think of this tool like an advantage, as an step of various to 
know the soul of this community, probably We have the same dreams and the 
same vision, so diversity is the main feature of our educational needs and 
opportunities, such cultures and lifes too. Possibilities to pay attention 
to this feature will increase as much known and as this has been acquaintes 
for us.  Allow me to share a dream, I see without use my eyes, more and more 
people with disabilities studying and improving their own lifes and our poor 
community, because the support services at the universities and others leave 
the starters phase and finally improve.    many Universities around de world 
offer different kind of support services for blind and low vision student, 
those are also different on  size either quality, so most of those are 
disconnected between them, there's not a  single structure to share their 
experience, and besides they are years of years giving the same support for 
people with similar needs those are still as poor as they were when they 
started theyr actuvities.
I hope let you know my mind, sorry if there some language mistakes, best 
regards.

________________________
Lic. Esperanza Villafuerte
Maestranda en Ciencia Política y Gobierno PUCP

e-mail: evillafuerte at pucp.pe
Phone: +51-1-3245407
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Susan D'Antoni
  To: oer-community
  Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:52 PM
  Subject: [Oer-community] A simple sample map to look at


  Dear Colleagues,



  It might he useful at this point to look at the sample map we prepared and 
that was in my first message as a screen shot – while it caused a little 
technical grief in loading.



  But first let me give a bit of background.  For an exploration of mapping 
OER, it seemed like a good idea to have a sample map.  As Patrick McAndrew 
mentioned in his message, I had the privilege of spending some time at the 
Open University and had a chance to learn about the work done there, and 
some of the options and issues relating to mapping.  Patrick and his group, 
Simon Buckingham Shum and his colleagues and Teresa Connolly raised many of 
the issues that are being raised in this discussion.



  The map that was developed is ONLY an example and I want to stress that. 
It is not a proposal.



  The sample map was developed with Google map and with data and generous 
help from the Open CourseWare Consortium (OCWC).  OCWC has an international 
membership and it made a good data set for the purpose of creating an 
example.



  Let’s go back to the message of Kathy Nicholson of the Hewlett Foundation 
(that has funded the support of this community while at UNESCO and now in 
the UNESCO/COL Chair), Mary Lou Forward, Patrick McAndrew and the many 
thoughts sprinkled through the the course of the week on what a map could be 
useful for, and especially Helen and Mark’s comments .



  Then explore the “simple sample” map at 
http://oerworldmap.oerknowledgecloud.org/ .



  For any of you who have trouble accessing the link, a screen shot is 
below.



  The map represents the three categories of membership of OCWC and you can 
see these by colour coding.  If you only want to see one category, such as 
institutions, click on the arrow in the window under Filter.  Then click on 
Institution of Higher Education – and you will only see members who are 
institutions.  This gives an idea of how a classification of OER initiatives 
might be presented – although there are more visual ways of doing that.



  Take a look….



  Best,

  Susan










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