oer world map prototypes

OER World Map Prototypes

• UNICAMP & Open Knowledge Foundation Brasil• The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education

(ISKME)• North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)

Panel Facilitator: Kathy Nicholson, Hewlett FoundationApril 24, 2014

Project Background

• Extensive online discussion re: OER mapping • Need for seeing & connecting OER projects• Experiment: Open RFP, 3 awards of $25k each• Today: OER community comments and feedback • To inform next open RFP, to be issued in Q3 2014

Please comment by April 30!• #oermap• [email protected]

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RATIONALE

Content

K-12

Latin America

Portuguese/Spanish

Sources

OER experts

Literature Sites

Analyses

OER maps

Mapping systems

System

Open-source

Open-map

Open-content

Distributed

DATA SOURCES

70+ specialists, 30% return rate (so far) and growing Latin America (especially) but also beyond

Publications and sites (Gov’t/Ministries) Previous inventories (OER Brazil, EdAberta) Well-known resources (TEMOA, RELPE, OEI, Dictalia) Academic publications and reports (UNESCO, COL)

TOP FEATURES

Facile open source throughout Replicate content and system, decentralization

Complex searches Among the whole scheme of metadata Navigate through text searches or countries

Multilingual Support for multiple languages in interface and content

User interaction Complete user form for suggestions, easy comments and demonstration of user-created collections

Novel content LatAm, and especially K-12 were an area of limited exposure in OER

SCALABILITY

Steal this map! All data is downloadable through a simple link in standard JSON format

Resource-based data Interface already permits resource-metadata content

Extensible system CMS-based system allows for multiple new apps and widgets

Data inclusion Easily include new data through user recommendations and admin interface

Standards defined Metadata standard shared among projects (eMundus/POERUP) and aligned with Dublin Core

NEXT STEPS

Expand the scope of the initiatives

Expand on the decentralization scheme

Expand the application interface to incorporate harvested resource-metadata

Make use of linked data/URIs

Disconnect the system from its Wordpress-dependency

Dynamically organize and present content and allow interaction with users

www.mira.org.br Tel Amiel UNICAMP/Brasil Everton Alvarenga Open Knowledge - Brasil Priscila Gonsales IED/Brasil Xavier Ochoa ESPOL/Ecuador

Tiago Soares Carlos Villavicencio

Andre Deak Felipe Lavignatti

Gabriel Fedel

OER World Map Project: Approach, Design, and Next Steps

Kate Katz, Product Manager, ISKME

Hewlett OER Grantee Meeting 2014

April 24, 2014

ISKME 2014:

Rationale and Approach

• The OER landscape is comprised of a multiplicity of stakeholders, with varied and overlapping needs

• There are limited spaces for these stakeholders to come together, share, and gather information about their activities

• Providing such a space for OER-related data, in conjunction with key education indicators, can support stakeholders in identifying opportunities and developing partnerships toward improved practice and strategic decision making

Develop an interactive, dynamic map that supports knowledge sharing, illustrates connections between community members, and situates OER initiatives within the context of educational opportunity more broadly

User Groups

OER End UsersͻTeachers, Learners, Parents, School

Administrators

OER ProvidersͻOER Aggregators, Institutions, Creators,

Service Providers

OER Advocatesͻ Foundations, Government Offices,

Policy Advisory Committees

• What is their role in the OER Community?

• What did they come to the map to learn?

• What information do they have to share?

• What language do they speak?

• What type of device(s) are they using?

• What is their level of technical proficiency?

Data Sources

Category Source Description

Resources OER Commons Resource metadata (language, grade level,etc.) and evaluations

Providers OLnet Evidence HubOER Commons

Provider name, contact information, goals, description, primary language, page views by region

OER Policy TAACCCT Information about institutions supported by TAACCCT policy funding

Education IndicatorsWorld BankUNESCO

Multiple education indicators by country/year, including enrollment rates by school level, by education program and institution, literacy rates, expenditure per student, etc.

FeaturesMulti-Dimensional ViewUse multiple layers and distinct icons to create a single view of data across several parameters

Share My MapShare a direct link to a version of the map

Easy-to-Use FiltersFilter the map by resource language, institution type, educational indicator, etc.

Timeline ToolView changes over time across specific map parameters

Data Export ToolDownload education data, resource data, and OER policy data

Example Use CaseOER Advocate | Partnerships

User: Program officer at a foundation

Goal: Identify new geographic areas for K-12 OER investment in the MENA region

Example Use CaseProvider | Collaboration

User: OER Provider in Brazil creating college-level social science resources in Portuguese

Goal: Expand its user base to all of South America by partnering with organizations with a significant number of users in the region, and who can help translate its resources from Portuguese to Spanish

Next Steps: Building Scale

Conduct outreach and build community

Expand API integrations Enable user-generated reports

Develop new input and output featuresDevelop mechanisms to capture user input

Develop direct record creation and editing interface

Iterate on and improve the interface

Gather user feedback Conduct user tests

[email protected] for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education

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Developing an OER World Map prototype

OER Grantees Meeting. Sausalito, 24.04.2014.

Felix Ostrowski & Adrian Pohl

Rationale2

A map is only one of many possible expositions of data

Possibly not even the best one in some cases

It’s all about the data!

That is why we built the OER Data Hub...

… and the OER World Map on top of it.

Ostrowski/Pohl: OER World Map Prototype

Data Sources3

OCWC membership data

Global list of OER initiatives from UNESCO`s WSIS Knowledge Communities

… and a handful of manual entries


Technology 4

Data Hub

Play: “The High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala”

Elasticsearch: “a flexible and powerful open source, distributed, real-time search and analytics engine”

World Map

Drupal: “an open source content management platform”

Leaflet.js: “a modern open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps”


http://www.playframework.com/

http://www.elasticsearch.org/

https://drupal.org/

http://www.leafletjs.com/

Features5

Interactive map (filter by type & location)

Editing & linking environment

Data available via read/write API

Customizable data model

Integration of external (linked) data


Data Model

OER World Map

Creating a new entry

Entry web page

Entry details on World Map

Entry details in the Data Hub

Linking data internally...

...and externally.

Links yield additional data

Scalability15

The approach of a decoupled frontend & backend scales well organisationally

(many stakeholders can use the Data Hub) and technically (additional

hardware & software components can be added as the dataset & its use grows).


Next Steps – Technical16

Improve world map presentation & interaction possibilities

Validate data based on application profile

Refine data model & application profile

Improve resource presentation & web form

Add provenance, administrative metadata and versioning


Next Steps – Organisational 17

Motivate community to participate

Initiate cooperations with other data curators

Discuss and implement editorial process

Enrich data (add missing information, subject classification etc.)


Take a look!18

http://oerworldmap.orghttp://api.lobid.org/oer


http://oerworldmap.org/

http://api.lobid.org/oer

Thanks for your attention!

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