OER World Map

Jan Adrian Philipp Felix RobJohannes Ben

The Team

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

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

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

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."

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.”

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)

● ROER4D Workshop

● OE Global (Banff, Canada)

OER World Map

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OER World Map

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

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

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… all implemented in JSON Schema & JSON-LD

Data Model

Person

Event

Institution OER Policy

… all implemented in JSON Schema & JSON-LD

email work locationname

URL locationname

Placege

oaddress

is a ...

has a ...

Project

Story

email

Action agentparticipan

t

OER Service

OER-WM datatype

abstract datatype

property

legend:

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

event

Linked Open Data

OER15OE

GLOBAL

person Rob Philipp

institutionOpen

University

hbz

Cologne

Jan... ...

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… all implemented in JSON Schema & JSON-LD

...for richer search results

Scala templating

JSON-LD & JSON Schema

Technology Stack

visible

user surface

Javascript

bootstrap

logicmiddle tierJava w/ Jackson

Play Framework

Elasticsearch Client

data

storagebackend

https://oerworldmap.org

edit / view search

map statistics

transform data

Elasticsearch Server

(+ additional file system)Elasticsearch API

frontend

Reports

Services by

Subject

Computer

SciencePhilosophy

PhysicsBiologyMathematics

English Chinese

German Russian

Services by

LanguageServices by

Grade Level

Middle

SchoolHigh

School

Elementary

School

Activities by

Continent

Afric

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Asia Australi

aEurop

e

North

Amercia

South

AmerciaFrench English

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

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…

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

Roadmapv.0.1 v.0.2 v.0.3 v.1.0

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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

Hybrid Editorial Workflow

Data Curation Projects

Community

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OER Impact Map – Data Explorer

OER Impact Map – Data Explorer

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

The map is not the only app...https://oerworldmap.org

Services by

SubjectServices by

LanguageServices by

Grade LevelActivities by

Continent

Data Curation Projects 3rd party apps

API

Converters

OER Data Hub

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

Opportunities for ROER4D

● Leverage the value of the ROER4D network

● Begin the process of visualising / mapping the entire project

● Communicate activity to the wider OER community

● Represent / raise awareness of the Global South

● Potential to link to other indicators relevant to development (e.g.

World Bank indicators)

● Build on existing mapping work within ROER4D

● Other?

Thanks for listening!

oerworldmap.org

@oerworldmap

info@oerworldmap.org

http://tinyurl.com/oermap

#oermap