OER expert/speaker directory

[trugwaldsaenger]

Recently there was an interesting discussion of the German OER Facebook site. Nele Hirsch proposed to generate a Referentenverzeichnis. Her idea was that it should include geografic information. I guess the idea here is, that it is cheaper, if you get a local speaker. So I guess this will be of special help for smaller initiatives, which cannot affort an expensive speaker. I discussed this issue at the OERinfo team meeting yesteraday and OERinfo is interested in adding it to the site.

The relate story would be: "As local initiative which is interested in using OER I would like to find a speaker/expert on OER, who lives close to me"

I guess that most likely we will approach this by creating a new interface on OERinfo, which gets the data from our API, but this still has to be confirmed. Eventually OERinfo will take care of developing the frontend, but I think we should develop an own idea how the frontend should look like. Ideally it will be possible to reuse it for the Open Education Professional Directory which eventually will be migrated to the OER World Map: https://www.oeconsortium.org/directory/

[trugwaldsaenger]

I think we need at least following enhancements:

1. Within the list of possible subtypes for persons a role "speaker (Referent)" should be added. Eventually this field could be named diffently if we do want to create a more generic directory, which includes speakers and consultants.
2. We need a new field "competence" which shows the fields of expertise. This will be quite interesting to define and I expect that some of the OERinfo 2.2 projects will have worked on this question already.

[acka47]

Probably a duplicate of #13. See also #144.

[acka47]

So, the plan is to:

1. create a directory for the German-speaking world (as of this issue)

2. import The Open Education Professional Directory from OEC (no separate issue exists yet)

   As mentioned before, we already had some plans in the past to collect a list of OER experts (#13) and to document their specific area of expertise (#144). Before moving on, we should sort out if we want to add a classification of areas of expertise/field of activities while building up the directory. If yes, we could build on top of the classification in the Open Education Professional Directory and the work @trugwaldsaenger has done in http://etherpad.lobid.org/p/opportunities.

[acka47]

Collecting relevant information for an expert directory:

• name
• location
• contact options
• spoken languages
• region of activity (similar to "Region of Experience" in OEPD): Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America, South America
• fields of activity
• educational sector

[drrobertfarrow]

Looking through the OEC labels I suggest it can be rationalised to the following:

Areas of application: OER; MOOC; OA

Context: Face-to-face; blended; online

Activities: Accessibility; Adoption; Assessment; Authoring; Awareness & Outreach; Capacity Building; Community Development; Facilitation; Fundraising; Instructional Design; Libraries; Lifelong Learning; Open Educational Practices*; Open Licensing; Peer Review; Policy; Project Management; Publishing; Research; Quality Assurance; Teaching & Learning; Technology & Infrastructure; Widening Participation; Workforce Development

I suggest OEP as a catch-all for the 5Rs activities and I added Widening Participation

[drrobertfarrow]

Revised list from http://etherpad.lobid.org/p/opportunities

Accessibility; Adoption; Assessment; Authoring; (preferred to 'content production') Awareness & Outreach; (preferred to "external communication") Business Models; Capacity Building; Community Development; Development; use of OER for developing the global south Facilitation; Fundraising; nb. not the same as 'funding' Instructional Design; Legal & Compliance (e.g. GDPR ) Libraries; Licensing & Copyright; Lifelong Learning; Open Educational Practices*; encompasses 5Rs in teaching and learning Policy; collapsed from policy implementation and policy development Project Management; inc. project management Publishing; of all kinds Research; replaces scientific evidence Quality Assurance; preferred to monitoring and oversight Teaching & Learning; inc. teaching and learning that is not open (to distinguish from OEP) Technology & Infrastructure; general category Widening Participation; new Workforce Development taken from OEC. Bit unsatisfactory. Change to "professional development & training"?

[acka47]

I created a first SKOS version with German labels, see https://github.com/hbz/oerworldmap/pull/1668/commits/41be7182519c697632021f71318b7920587c5fa1