[Oer-community] What have maps ever done for us?

[Simon Buckingham Shum]

On 28 Nov 2012, at 17:22, Paul Stacey wrote:
> Andy:
> Thanks for this comprehensive description of what an OER map could do. 
> I particularly want to support your call for an OER map of connections. 
> This correlates very well with a similar post I made earlier to this forum suggesting we generate an OER World Map that is more of a social network rather than a content network...

Paul et al,

1. For those of you interested in the metaphor of cartography as applied to knowledge...
http://books.kmi.open.ac.uk/knowledge-cartography/preface

2. We have implemented a follow social networking feature in ci.olnet.org (based on the shell: evidence-hub.net) so that you can track people, projects and organizations of interest that show up on the google map, getting email updates on their activity

Simon


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