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
Our first team meeting for 2018 from the 18th to the 19th January 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 could not make it to Cologne this time so we … Continue reading First Team Meeting 2018 in Cologne
The Ljubjlana Action Plan highlights the need to identify and share models of good practice, which have proven to be sustainable ways to organize the production, adoption, sharing and use of Open Educational Resources. We believe that learning from experiences made in other countries will be key for a fast and effective global mainstreaming of … Continue reading Identifying Lighthouses
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
It has been a while since the last technical progress report has been published. Luckily, this is not because nothing has happened since, but rather because we were busy building things. This blog post briefly summarizes the most important of those things. User interface The most prominent changes are naturally related to the user interface. … Continue reading Platform progress report v1.1
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
Just before the end of a busy year, this post briefly summarizes the last steps takes towards the release of v1.0 of the OER World Map, the final one for phase II of the project. Input templates The basic input templates have been refined. Most importantly, look-up functionalities for different value types are in place, which significantly … Continue reading Platform progress report v1.0
This post summarizes the progress made since v0.2 and provides an outlook to version 1.0 which will be launched by the end of the year. Feedback is greatly appreciated either in the comments or by mail. Statistics The front page now features statistics on the distribution of subjects, languages and grade levels of services on the … Continue reading Platform progress report v0.3
Shortly before the launch of version 0.2 of The OER World Map, this report gives a brief overview of the development that has happened since the release of version 0.1 as well as an outlook on the next steps. Gathering and ingesting data Following an unconference session at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s OER … Continue reading Platform progress report v0.2
After having launched the initial version of the OER World Map on March 11th during Open Education Week, this report gives a brief overview of the development that has happened so far as well as an outlook on the next steps. General software development process All prerequisits for the development process and quality control have … Continue reading Platform progress report
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