Der Workshop „Re-strategizing the OER World Map“ findet am 17.11.2026 um 11:30 Uhr statt und wird von Prof. Dr. Rob Farrow (Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University) durchgeführt.
Beschreibung des Workshops:
The OER World Map (https://oerworldmap.org/) is a system for collecting and sharing data about activity and actors around the world and representing this visually. The platform assigns a unique identifier to each organization, person, project, service, and event in the OER ecosystem, and its editorial model pairs central data management with local user input and validation. Since 2023, the OER World Map is being further developed by OERinfo and Intevation GmbH, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany.
As part of a strategic renewal, Prof. Robert Farrow of The Open University (UK) is interviewing key stakeholders to develop recommendations for developing the OER World Map. The technical and information landscape around the platform has shifted since its core architecture was designed in earlier phases of the project. Large language models now offer plausible answers to several of the platform’s founding user stories, connecting OER actors, surfacing repositories, and generating statistics on the movement, through conversational search rather than structured directories. This potentially changes what “added value” means for the platform’s user groups and offers new potential forms of data processing and workflow as well as functional enhancements such as data visualisation. This study therefore addresses the future of the platform by engaging key stakeholders around desired operation, functionality and user experience of the OER World Map.
This presentation will present provisional results of the study and facilitate a discussion around how the OER World Map can support services, actors and infrastructures in open education.
Anmeldung zum Workshop:
Der Workshop findet im Rahmen der KNOER-Tagung am 17. November in Frankfurt am Main statt. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung sowie die Möglichkeit zur Anmeldung finden Sie hier:
Zugangsdaten zum Workshop:
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Meeting chat link
Launch Meeting – Zoom
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