Mapping OER in the Global South
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The document summarizes the OER World Map project, which aims to map open educational resources (OER) around the world. It provides a high-level overview of the project's goals to create a central register of OER expertise and activities, encourage collaboration, and support advocacy. It describes the project's history, data model, technology stack, reports, development progress, and roadmap. It also discusses opportunities for others to get involved and contribute to mapping OER initiatives globally.
Mapping OER in the Global South
- 2. Jan Adrian Philipp Felix RobJohannes Ben The Team
- 3. Why map OER? ● No record of activity by country or local area ● No central register of expertise and/or OER services ● Hard to find OER for local languages/standards ● Encourage collaboration and awareness ● Enable reuse of educational materials ● Support advocacy and policymaking ● Improve communication between different stakeholders ● Mapping provides a universal reference framework
- 4. History of the project ● International OER community convened by UNESCO International Institute for Education Planning in 2006 ● Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) first attempted to map OER in 2005 ● D’Antoni mapping discussion exercise (900 people), November 2012 ● Other maps: OLnet Evidence Hub, OER Impact Map, POERUP, CORE Open Access Repository Map ● Hewlett funded Phase 1 prototypes: hbz, ISKME, MIRA ● Phase 2 funding awarded November 2014
- 5. What is OER World Map? ● Project funded by The Hewlett Foundation ● Partners: North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz), graphthinking GmbH, The Open University (UK), buschfeld.com ● A way for the OER community to develop & share data on itself ● Free and open source software, linked open data (LOD) + API ● OER Data Hub uses open data services to power statistics module for fast, flexible data import/export ● Mapping as primary form of visualization ● Facilitating self-organisation of the OER movement
- 6. Evolution of the Project Vision I (2012) "The OER World Map will illuminate the scope and nature of the global OER movement and act as a point of entry for a range of users. Its visualisation will serve to identify OER initiatives and OER people worldwide to facilitate sharing resources and connecting people. Built in collaboration, it will engage contributors and users as ‘co-owners’ to promote comprehensiveness and sustainability."
- 7. Evolution of the Project Vision II (2014) "The OER Data Hub is a platform which collects and publishes openly into the web data by, about and for the OER community. The OER World Map is the first out of many applications build on top of the OER Data Hub, which visualizes the data in the form of a geographical map and serves as a symbol of the project.”
- 8. Progress so far… Project Services ● email, newsletter, landing page ● technology stack Design ● user interface, responsive web design, accessibility Events ● Hewlett Grantees Meeting (San Francisco, USA) ● OER15 (Cardiff, UK) ● ROER4D Workshop ● OE Global (Banff, Canada)
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- 13. OER World Map
- 14. What data do we collect? How do we visualize it?How do we collect it? Projects Organizations Services Persons Stories Policies Resources Map Calendar Time Line Tables/ Lists Statistics Events Manual Automatic 3 Key Questions
- 15. Data Model Institution Person Event Agent OER Policy Project OER Service Country Grade Level Language Subject OER attended associated with is a Organizer of is located in provides OER for is a provides provides provides OER in developed withinis member offunded byhas provides OER for OER Data Hub external data source future data source legend: … all implemented in JSON Schema & JSON-LD
- 16. Data Model Person Event Institution OER Policy … all implemented in JSON Schema & JSON-LD email work locationname URL locationname Place ge o address is a ... has a ... Project Story email Action agent participan t OER Service OER-WM datatype abstract datatype property legend:
- 17. Simplified Data Model Activity (Action) Place Story (Article) Tool (Service) Person Organization about instrument location participant Terms in brackets refer to schema.org data types. … all implemented in JSON Schema & JSON-LD
- 18. event Linked Open Data OER15 OE GLOBAL person Rob Philipp institution Open University hbz Cologne Jan... ... ...... ... ... … all implemented in JSON Schema & JSON-LD ...for richer search results
- 19. Scala templating JSON-LD & JSON Schema Technology Stack visible user surface Javascript bootstrap logicmiddle tier Java w/ Jackson Play Framework Elasticsearch Client data storage backend https://oerworldmap.org edit / view search map statistics transform data Elasticsearch Server (+ additional file system) Elasticsearch API frontend
- 20. Reports Services by Subject Computer Science Philosophy Physics Biology Mathematics English Chinese German Russian Services by Language Services by Grade Level Middle School High School Elementary School Activities by Continent Afric a Asia Australi aEurop e North Amercia South AmerciaFrench English
- 21. Reports By Country Country Institutions ... with an OER policy Projects Services Afghanistan 9 6 16 4 Albania 5 2 20 15 Algeria 11 7 9 10 American Samoa 2 4 1 15 Andorra 20 10 4 1 Angola 20 2 12 20 Anguilla 10 1 5 15 Armenia 14 13 4 19 Aruba 9 7 7 11 ... 10 8 6 18 ... 20 2 12 15 ... 7 20 5 3
- 22. Data policy & security ● “data sparingness”: Only collect data you really need! ● no commercial data use planned by OER-WM operators (despite CC0 licence will generally allow commercial use) ● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design ● open source → transparent use of data https://github.com/hbz/oerworldmap ● professional service provider → server architecture, firewalls…
- 23. Development progress ● general setup (infrastructure, choice of technology...) ● landing page (launch of v.0.1) ● stepwise functional expansion: - stories - events - organisations - search - reports ● (connect OERs) done done in progress in progress to do to do to do to do hopefully phase 3 / 2016
- 24. Roadmap v.0.1 v.0.2 v.0.3 v.1.0 28.02.2015 29.05.2015 31.08.2015 01.12.2015 initial web presence maps & search projects & services export & editoring ● general setup ● landing page ● users can register ● networking ● heatmap (world view) ● country- specific detail view ● search interface ● projects can be entered ● profiles can be created ● input for external data ● statistics per grade level, country and language ● calendar ● export formatting ● user documentation ● edit-a-thon
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- 27. OER Impact Map – Data Explorer
- 28. OER Impact Map – Data Explorer
- 29. There are many ways to contribute! Membership of the map can act as a focal point for local communities of practice, supporting the OER ecosystem and its people ● Stakeholders can develop use-cases for the project ● Experts and institutions can network and share experiences ● Repositories, libraries, & data curation projects can contribute and collect data ● Champions can represent and advocate for different parts of the world ● Developers can build useful applications using interface with OER Data Hub
- 30. The map is not the only app... https://oerworldmap.org Services by Subject Services by Language Services by Grade Level Activities by Continent Data Curation Projects 3rd party apps API Converters OER Data Hub
- 31. Call to action Join the project ● Visit oerworldmap.org and share your email address to join ● Receive project updates ● Share your stories ● Contribute use cases - make the map more relevant to you Country Champions ● We are currently seeking Champions for most countries / regions ● Register your interest via info@oerworldmap.org
- 32. Opportunities for ROER4D ● Leverage the value of the ROER4D network ● Begin the process of visualising / mapping the entire project ● Communicate activity to the wider OER community ● Represent / raise awareness of the Global South ● Potential to link to other indicators relevant to development (e.g. World Bank indicators) ● Build on existing mapping work within ROER4D ● Other?