[Oer-community] Our discussion of essential information for a map...

Edward Cherlin echerlin at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 13:35:42 MST 2012


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Susan D'Antoni <susandantoni at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> On Friday, I tried to nudge the discussion back onto the issue of what
> information would be essential for an OER world map.  Can I try again.....
>
> The sample map at http://oerworldmap.oerknowledgecloud.org/ has 3 different
> levels of information if you use the Filter and go to Markers 1,2,3.  This
> is just to show one way of giving people a quick entry point for information
> about an OER initiative.  (The text of the markers is below)
>
> Looking at these and thinking about the elements of information identified
> in discussion last week (see Sara's summary), does anyone wish to comment on
> this issue further?

Please add the technical requirements for using the material. Is it
platform-specific? Does it require particular hardware (camera, I/O,
printer, etc.) or software? Is it in a particular file format? What
would have to be done to translate or adapt the material, with what
tools?

Also, educational prerequisites and applicable software licenses.

Here is a sample, as it might appear for a project I am working on.

Etoys Reference Manual

Formats: HTML, PDF, EPUB, print

Organizations: FLOSS Manuals, the Etoys/Squeak community

Sites: http://www.flossmanuals.net/

http://www.squeak.org/

http://www.squeakland.org/

Link: http://booki.flossmanuals.net/etoys-reference-manual/_edit/

License: GPL

Software prerequisites: Etoys

Educational prerequisites: Etoys programming experience, perhaps a
year or so, depending on the student's level of development.

Hardware prerequisites: Etoys runs on the Smalltalk VM, which runs on
almost any computer. Camera, microphone, speakers, and various IO are
optional.

Adaptations are done via changesets and packages.

Localization: Some Unicode support, including Pango for rendering.
Insufficient IDE and non-Latin keyboard support. Uses the standard pot
file format. Localizations are being done at
http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/etoys_new/ to 64 languages.

> Best,
>
>
> Susan
>
>
> **************************
>
>
> Marker 1 .....Miinimal information
>
>
>
> OER Initiative: MIT OCW
>
> OER Initiative web site: http://ocw.mit.edu
>
>
>
> Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
>
> Institution website: http://www.mit.edu/
>
> Country: United States
>
>
>
> *******************************
>
> Marker 2 ......More information
>
>
>
> OER Initiative: OER @ AVU
>
> OER Initiative web site: http://oer.avu.org
>
>
>
> Institution: African Virtual University
>
> Institution website: http://www.avu.org/
>
> Country: Pan African intergovernmental organisation
>
>
>
> OER Initiative contact: contact at avu.org
>
> Start year: 2011
>
> Level of education: Tertiary
>
> Languages: English, French, Portuguese
>
>
>
> ***********************************
>
> Marker 3 .... More information with a link to a case study of the OER
> initiative
>
>
>
> OER Initiative: OpenLearn
>
> OER Initiative web site: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn
>
>
>
> Institution: The Open University
>
> Institution website: http://www.open.ac.uk/
>
> Country: United Kingdom
>
>
>
> OER Initiative contact: Andrew Law
>
> Start year: 2006
>
> Languages: English
>
>
>
> Case study: A case study of OpenLearn was prepared for the Open Educational
> Quality Initiative (http://www.oer-quality.org) The full text of the case
> study can be found at http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3494
>
>
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