building an open operations room for the oer community #opened16

The OER World Map

Building an Open Operations Room for the OER Community

Dr. Rob Farrow & Jan Neumann13th Annual Open Education Conference

Outline

A. What is the OER World Map?B. Project Key PointsC. Live DemonstrationD. The German OER Information SiteE. What to do next?

A. Defining the OER World MapLearning to understand ourselves

2013: Initial Call for proposal

2014: The OER World Map as a basic dataset

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Three Main Use Cases (‘Epics’)

1. As an OER actor I would like to find other OER actors and connect with them, so that I can cooperate, coordinate and share resources and knowledge

2. As a teacher or learner I would like to access qualified, complete and current lists of existing OER offerings, so that I can easily find context-appropriate open resources

3. As an OER policy maker I would like to get meaningful statistics and overviews on the status of the OER movement in order to take and defend decisions about OER

2015: OER World Map as an Open Operation Room

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2016: The OER World Map as a SemisThe OER World Map is a Social Education Management Information System (Semis) which includes elements of: • A social networking platform• A business information system• A geoinformation system • An OER library catalogue

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B. Project key pointsgoals, stakeholder, approach, data collection

Goals I: Big Lyric

“The OER World Map aims at accelerating the development of the global OER movement by strengthening the ability of the OER community to organize itself.”

Goals II: Practical Benefits• The development of OER search engines is prepared by providing

qualified lists of OER sources (e.g. repositories)• OER projects working on similar goals are connected, so that they can

share their expertise and resources• OER experts can be found easily within the database• Provision of a calendar of all OER related events• By the provision of reliable statistics policy makers are supported in

enacting policies in favour of OER• Reliable data is enriched by narrative knowledge and visualizations

Who is targeted?

Approach?•Bottom up and top down•Openness by default•Quality over quantity• Think global, act local•Collective learning•Building communities of open practice

Data collection is done by those…

…who are paid for it

…who benefit from it

…who enjoy contributing

C. Live presentationoerworldmap.org

D. The German OER Info-Site

Sustainable models for OER World Map editing

E. What to do next?How to particpate in the OER World Map!

What can you do?•Register on the map (just click Login)• Join the learning process• Spread the word!•Become an editor & add data•Become an country champion• Establish a strategic partnership

info@oerworldmap.org

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info@oerworldmap.org

Many thanks!Vielen Danke!

“The OER World Map Project – Building an Open Operations Room for the OER Community”

by Jan Neumann & Rob Farrow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence