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

Fri Nov 30 04:16:28 MST 2012

Gema Santos-Hermosa wrote:

{"} I also consider important to define
what kind of basic information has to be collected and showed from each OER
initiative. In that sense, we might think about what information we need to
retrieval: what we are interested to know from OER initiatives. Geographical
and timing approaches, as it has been discussed, are essential but not enough.
Apart from data such as url and contact person, I think we need to know other
interesting information as: 

- subject area or discipline (to connect
all OER initiatives in the same knowledge field)- of course it has not to be a
very specific subject (micro level), we don´t need a taxonomy but a general
classification (macro level). 
-language (to know about initiatives in our
own language but outside our own geographical area) 

-partnership with other institution/project
(to know about OER initiatives already connected). If a there is a previous
partnership between two or more initiatives/institutions, can be interesting to
know it in order to ask them about their experience (learned lessons,
recommendations, etc) 

-open licence used {"} 
I thank and fully concur with Gema Santos-Hermosa that we should navigate
carefully the relationship between contents as in OER subject knowledge in terms
of classification and the networking opportunity the OER global map(s) may
provide. An area in tandem to content classification might be OPEN JOURNAL
SYSTEM (OJS) exemplified by the PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE PROJECT, please see http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs 
I may also wish to submit within the subject
areas for example, “Marketing Mysticism” via http://www.journalacademicmarketingmysticismonline.net/index.php/JAMMO/issue/archive 
This is where the question arises; is it
the http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojsthat should
be included in the map or could it be part of the OER map and also added to
the subject category of Open Journal System within the OER knowledge contents? 
Where does http://www.journalacademicmarketingmysticismonline.net/index.php/JAMMO/issue/archive 
belong, either or none?

Paul Silva 
 http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs-languages/turkish
http://www.journalacademicmarketingmysticismonline.net/

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 From: "Walenkamp, Jos" <walenkamp at nuffic.nl>
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Verzonden: vrijdag 30 november 2012 2:13
Aan: Paul Silva; oer-community
Onderwerp: Re: [Oer-community] What have maps ever done for us?

Dear colleagues,

Andy, it was a really good point!

I agree most of you about creating an OER mapping based in connections: if connecting professionals working in OER is the purpose, then the map is going to be useful. However, if the users are going to be the community of educators, practitioners, OER creators, etc we would have to consider other aspects further than “connections” (as type of content, pedagogical patterns, etc)

In the first case, “social network mapping” or “connections map”, I understand the aim would be to help members of our community to share OER collective intelligence in order to extend it. As it has been mentioned before, one of the main criteria is mapping the institutions. I’d say to be careful with this classification, since more than one institution could be involved in the same initiative (for example, partnership between different universities, a consortium, etc) and there are other “entities” which are not  institutions (such as a research group with mixed funding: from regional and national government , from diverse private institutions, etc). Finally, as Paul Silva said, there can be “ OER lone rangers”.

I also consider important to define what kind of basic information has to be collected and showed from each OER initiative. In that sense, we might think about what information we need to retrieval: what we are interested to know from OER initiatives. Geographical and timing approaches, as it has been discussed, are essential but not enough. Apart from data such as url and contact person, I think we need to know other interesting information as:

- subject area or discipline (to connect all OER initiatives in the same knowledge field)- of course it has not to be a very specific subject (micro level), we don´t need a taxonomy but a general classification (macro level).
-language (to know about initiatives in our own language but outside our own geographical area)

-partnership with other institution/project (to know about OER initiatives already connected). If a there is a previous partnership between two or more initiatives/institutions, can be interesting to know it in order to ask them about their experience (learned lessons, recommendations, etc)

-open licence used

There are so many “fields” we can consider to describe each initiative….that we'll have to choose the ones better fit to our mapping interests. We can start with some classifications and add more later....

Good night!

Gema Santos-Hermosa
Phd researcher
OER and Educational repositories
Digital librarian
Teaching&Learning Support - Information Resources Management
OA&OCW
UOC Virtual Library
Open University of Catalonia
http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/

2012/11/29 Paul Silva <professorpaulsilva at yahoo.co.uk<mailto:professorpaulsilva at yahoo.co.uk>>
If I may ‘second’, if you know what I mean, the call for an OER map of connections; as it has the potential to help lone OER voices to network and find ways to develop the OER project in regions where otherwise are difficult to do such progressive things.
Also, this ties in to what Susan posted earlier with regards to Abel’s UNESCO OER map list that members should send Abel any new additions through this forum; that way we all remain in the loop and that I think is doubly useful to OER lone rangers as myself as it keeps me in the ‘stream’ of things.
Paul Silva

http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs-languages/turkish
http://www.journalacademicmarketingmysticismonline.net/
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To: oer-community <oer-community at athabascau.ca<mailto:oer-community at athabascau.ca>>
Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012, 14:58
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] What have maps ever done for us?

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<http://ci.olnet.org/> (based on the shell: evidence-hub.net<http://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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