OER World Map – UK Country View 2018 #altc

https://oerworldmap.org/country/gb To mark the first day of ALT-C, the UK's foremost conference for educational technologists, we are happy to share with you a UK version of the OER World Map and invite you to authenticate and improve the data. The OER World Map collects and visualizes data on actors and activities in the field of open education …

Catalysing Open Innovation: OER World Map at #oer18 and #oeglobal18

It's been a busy period for the OER World Map team! There has been a lot of development work taking place - including a new brand identity and UI overhaul for the OER World Map (which has a great new landing page).  The refresh was launched at OER18: Open to All - 9th Annual Conference for Open …

OER World Map at #opened17

Next week the OER World Map project will be represented at the 14th Annual Open Education Conference which will take place in Anaheim, California between the 11th and 13th of October. We can be found in the Royal Ballroom at table 23 on Thursday October 12, 2017 11:00am - 11:25am and again between 11:30am - 11:55am. …

Evaluating OER World Map with its users – your input requested

As part of our commitment to iteratively improving the OER World Map through its development, we are always keen to receive feedback from our users.  To encourage participation from as many stakeholders as possible we have formalised this process in the form of a survey (found at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/OERWM2017). The survey asks about: Your role in …

Building an Open Operations Room for the OER Community #opened16 #oerworldmap

In case you  couldn't make it, here are the slides from today's presentation at the Open Education conference.  All feedback welcome!

Video stories are now online

We now have our first video content available through OER World Map! You can review the entries at the following URLs: Open Educational Resources in Africa https://oerworldmap.org/resource/urn:uuid:d00a0e9b-66b1-47bc-a0ef-f5d90b77ee5a NOVA's OER-Based Associate Degree Project https://oerworldmap.org/resource/?q=associate#urn:uuid:9af4551b-8b8d-4be6-88af-1f055d450bf7 We hope to add more stories in this way over the coming months.  If you have a video relating to OER that …

Announcing v0.2 of OER World Map

Following on from Felix's recent post about the technical development that has gone into producing v0.2 of OER World Map, I'm writing to announce the official launch of the latest iteration. By the time you read this a whole host of new functionality will have been added to the site. Firstly - and most obviously - …

OER World Map at #oer15

Helo ffrindiau OER, a chyfarchion o Gaerdydd yng Nghymru (DU)! Here are the slides from today's presentation by myself and Philipp at the OER15 conference in Cardiff, in Wales (UK). They provide a snapshot of the current progress of the project and we also managed to collect our first examples of user stories. You can …

Unconference: OER World Map at #oer2015

Today, myself and Felix are representing the OER World Map project in Sausalito, California this week at the meeting of grantees of The Hewlett Foundation.  It's been great to get the chance to connect with some of the key players in the OER world and exchange ideas about the future aspirations of the movement.  The …

Making connections: #OER World Map in 2015 #openeducationwk

As we enter Open Education Week it's starting be be a really exciting period for OER World Map.  Since funding for the project was awarded to the team there has been lots of activity behind the scenes to build the technical architecture that will allow us to map complex information in an intuitive and useful …