[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.
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Lic. Esperanza Villafuerte
Maestranda en Ciencia Política y Gobierno PUCP
e-mail: evillafuerte at pucp.pe
Phone: +51-1-3245407
Mobile: +51-1-990328796
Nextel +51*834*1438
----- 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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