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

[Caine, Abel]

Dear Susan,

Please consider the FOSS-based OpenStreetMap for the following reasons:

1.  FOSS tools are the practical and philosophical basis of OER;

2.  All data contributed by members belong to members (this is not the case with Google Maps);

3.  I will confirm this but I'm fairly certain OSM supports the relevant W3C standards for access by People With Disabilities.

Regards,
Abel

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On 18 nov. 2012, at 09:55, "Lic. Esperanza Villafuerte" <evillafuerte at speedy.com.pe<mailto:evillafuerte at speedy.com.pe>> wrote:

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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----- Original Message -----
From: Susan D'Antoni<mailto:susandantoni at gmail.com>
To: oer-community<mailto:oer-community at athabascau.ca>
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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