The forum was organised in association with the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation and focused on the findings and conclusions from an OECD study to map the scale and scope of OER initiatives in higher education.

UNESCO: Open Educational Resources

Previous projects have included everything from workshops on designing and building less-polluting cookstoves to efforts to build and repair schools and roads to a two-year survey by scientists to study and map the Mekong.

WSJ: Southeast Asia Gets a Boost From Clinton

The meeting, held at Rhodes University, was a follow-up to a study undertaken last year by UNESCO to map the media training landscape across the continent and to assess potential excellence according to three broad criteria areas.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

The orbiter will carry instruments to study gamma ray and heat emissions from the planet and construct a global map of the planet's elemental composition.

CNN: High-resolution images help prepare for Mars landing

Scientists can already study earthquakes from space, in particular through the use of radar to map the deformation of the ground that results when faults rupture.

BBC: Japan quake 'heard at edge of space'

Researchers map such smiles to study where our emotions come from, their complexity and the impact they have on social relationships.

WSJ: Stress-Busting Smiles

For this study, DeCode recruited 869 individuals from 146 families to create a recombination map---and did it on the cheap.

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