In cooperation with the OER19 conference team and the Centrum Cyfrowe, the OER World Map project organizes the first OER POLICY Lab. The event will take place one day before the start of the official OER19 conference: UPDATE: THE OFFICIAL AGENDA - Hashtag on Twitter: #OERPolicyLab Tuesday, the 9th of April 2019 from 10:00 till … Continue reading Join the OER Policy Lab @ OER19! #OERPolicyLab
JOIN US AT THE OER POLICY FORUM IN WARSAW! Creative Commons defines OER policies “as legislation, institutional policies, and/or funder mandates that lead to the creation, increased use, and/or support for improving OER”. OER policy making has been of major concern within the global open education movement, since policies - at their best - can … Continue reading Moving the OER Policy Registry to the OER World Map
Our third team meeting for 2018 from the 27th to the 28th September again took place at Cologne at the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Centre (hbz), where four people of the OER World Map team are working. Rob Farrow from the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, and our four colleagues from Berlin joined us. The … Continue reading Third Team Meeting 2018 in Cologne
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 … Continue reading Catalysing Open Innovation: OER World Map at #oer18 and #oeglobal18
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. … Continue reading OER World Map at #opened17
Our second team meeting for 2017 from the 18th to the 19th May took place at Cologne. The North Rhine-Westphalian Library Centre (hbz) is in Cologne where four people of the OER World Map team are located. So the other members of our geographically dispersed team had to travel this time coming from Milton Keynes, … Continue reading Second Team Meeting 2017 Cologne
From the 16th to the 17th March we met for our first “physical” team meeting in 2017. The two days were filled with lively discussions and effective teamwork. Our colleague Felix was our host. We met at the office of graphthinking in Berlin, Köpenick. Many thanks for the hospitality and possibility to meet in the … Continue reading First Team Meeting 2017 Berlin
The OER World Map collects and visualizes information on organizations, persons, projects, services and events related to OER. Using linked open data technology, all entries can be easily connected, allowing the World Map to provide a the most complete and reliable model of the global OER movement so far. At its core, the platform provides … Continue reading Open Education Week 2017: Making Sense of the OER World Map through the Use of Folksonomies
Our last team meeting for 2016 from the 24th to the 25th November took place at Cologne. Here in holy city of Cologne is the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Centre (hbz) where four people of the OER World Map team are located. So the other members of our geographically dispersed team had to travel this time. … Continue reading Fourth Team Meeting 2016 at Cologne
Like many other projects, the OER World Map is driven by a virtual team, which is working distributed in different cities, which are in our case Cologne, Berlin, and Milton Keynes. Though cooperation via the net works pretty well, it does not replace meeting personal for many reasons. Therefore we emphasize meeting personally on a … Continue reading The third Team Meeting 2016 at Milton Keynes
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