OER World Map Prototypes
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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]
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)
PLATFORM
OpenStreetMaps | tiles Leaflet | library
JEO | interface
CouchDB | federation
Wordpress | cms
User
Developer
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
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
Ostrowski/Pohl: OER World Map Prototype
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”
Ostrowski/Pohl: OER World Map Prototype
Features5
Interactive map (filter by type & location)
Editing & linking environment
Data available via read/write API
Customizable data model
Integration of external (linked) data
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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).
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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
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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.)
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Take a look!18
http://oerworldmap.orghttp://api.lobid.org/oer
Ostrowski/Pohl: OER World Map Prototype
Thanks for your attention!
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