The OER World Map (www.oerworldmap.org) is a Social Education Management Information System which aims at accelerating the development of the global OER ecosystem by strengthening the ability of the OER community to organize itself. It combines elements of a social networking platform, a business information system, a geoinformation system and a library catalogue and will contribute to mainstreaming OER by collecting and visualizing data on the growing number of actors and activities in the field of open education worldwide. The presentation will introduce the project, demonstrate the status of the platform after two years of development and highlight planned action for the next two years. Special attention will be given to the development of a German OER Information Site, which currently is developed under participation of the OER World Map project and which will introduce an “OER Country Map” user interface.
