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
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 … Continue reading Evaluating OER World Map with its users – your input requested
Sweden has a longstanding tradition of high quality education and it has dedicated great efforts into opening up their educational models and materials. Here you will find an overview on education in Sweden, the historical and political background, and a summary of Open Education Initiatives in Sweden. This country report for Sweden was written by … Continue reading Open Education Sweden by Ebba Ossiannilsson
In case you couldn't make it, here are the slides from today's presentation at the Open Education conference. All feedback welcome!
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 … Continue reading Video stories are now online
Since most of our team members are somehow connected to the library world, one of the first things we wanted to do, when we started phase II of the project, was to define a clear collection policy for the OER World Map, which should define which data to collect and which not. A clear scope, … Continue reading The OER World Map Openness Indicator – Background & Introduction
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 - … Continue reading Announcing v0.2 of OER World Map
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 … Continue reading OER World Map at #oer15
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 … Continue reading Unconference: OER World Map at #oer2015
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