1. Adolescence of a Community Platform
Prepared by Jan Neumann for the Open Education Consortium Global Conference 2017

2. Project Definition

3. The OER World Map as a directory
OER World Map
The Directory of the Global
Education Movement
Services
Persons
Organizations
Projects
Events
(Resources)
(Practices)
(Tools)
(Policies)
Stories
Data types in brackets will / might be added in the future

4. The OER World Map as a collective learning Opportunity
“The OER World Map can be seen as an Open
Educational Resource itself, which provides the
opportunity to reflect on the nature of the OER
ecosystem while categorizing its elements.”

5. The OER World Map is what it does!
1. As an OER actor I would like to find other OER actors and connect with
them, so that I can cooperate in a coordinated way and share resources
and knowledge with them.
2. As a teacher or learner I would like to get qualified, complete and current
lists of existing OER offers, so that I can easily find open resources, which
fit to my current learning or teaching context.
3. As an OER policy maker I would like to get meaningful statistics and
oversights on the status of the OER movement in order to take and defend
decisions in favour of OER.

6. Project stakeholder

7. OER World Map Target Groups
3.000 (?)
OER Actors
Policy Maker
?
Teachers & Learners
>1.000.000
Directly
adressed
Indirectly
adressed

8. The Country Champion Network

9. Technology
and data model

10. Technology stack
oerworldmap-UI
OEC DB
oec-importer
iCalendar
ics-importer
website
scraper
…
…
oerworldmap-auth
oerworldmap-api
graph-db elasticsearch account-dbversion

11. member of
Data model
Service
Person
Organization
ProjectEventStory
Country
Subject
Grade Level
Language
created by attends organized by
located in
provider
in language
provides OER for
providesOER
about
operator / funder result
OER World Map
External data source
Resource
published by

12. Data collection

13. Manual data collection
Data collection is done by those …
… who are being paid for it,
… who benefit from it,
… who have fun, doing so!

14. Integration of Bottom Up & Top Down
Top Down
Bottom Up

15. Automatisation of data collection (planned)
API
OER
World Map
API
API
API
API
Open Textbook Library
ndla
Serlo
Service n
Fields to be imported
→ Number of included resources
→ Topics
→ Format
→ License
→ Educational level
→ Language
→ …

16. The OER Info Program

17. The German OERInfo site
• First example of
government funded
data collection with the
OER World Map
• An “OER Germany Map”
will be developed
• The “OER Germany Map”
can be reused for the
Generation of multiple
OER Country maps

18. OERInfo on OER World Map

19. Help us to grow up!

20. Join us in mapping the world of OER!
→ Register on the map and start editing
→ Join the learning process
→ Tell your friends
→ Become an country champion
→ Become a strategic partner

21. Thank you!
„OER World Map: Adolescence of a Community Platform“,
by Jan Neumann is licensed und CC BY 4.0