An introduction the OER World Map project with a call to action for the OER community

1. OER World Map

2. OER World Map
SHARE YOUR OER STORY
tinyurl.com/oermap
#oermap

3. Jan Adrian Philipp Felix RobJohannes Ben
The Team

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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."

8. 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.”

9. 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)
● OE Global (Banff, Canada)

10. OER World Map

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14. OER World Map

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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:

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. Progressive Enhancement...
minimalistic
kernel
basic
functionality
simple
technology
options&
goodies
agile
development
functional
expansion

22. ...and Fallback-Technology
minimalistic
kernel
basic
functionality
simple
technology
richer
technology
<Javascript enabled>

23. ...and Fallback-Technology
US 37
DE 35
GB 21
ES 18
CA 17
RU 14
AU 11
BR 9
ZA 8
IN 6
IT 6
UA 5
BE 4
MX 4
PL 4
CH 3
EC 3
FR 3
GR 3
IE 3
JP 3
NL 3
NZ 3
PT 3
RO 3
AL 2
CO 2
minimalistic
kernel
basic
functionality
simple
technology
<Javascript disabled> high availability based on lowest
technological standards
→

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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…

27. 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

28. 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

29. Hybrid Editorial Workflow
Data Curation Projects
Community
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30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. Your stories…
● What has been shared?
● How useful is it?
● What’s missing?
● Could this tool help people to learn about OER?
● What would you like to see on an OER map?

34. Thanks for listening!
oerworldmap.org
@oerworldmap
info@oerworldmap.org
http://tinyurl.com/oermap
#oermap