Openness in Education
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Tools
open source software
learning management systems
content management systems
Content
open textbooks
learning objects
open courses
MOOC
Technology
Higher education
open scholarship
open research
social media
open teaching
open data
open access
open courses
MOOC
open universities
Policy
Governmental
Institutional
Societal benefit
Discoverability
metadata
repository
search engines
OER directory sites
Sustainability
funding models
Endowment
Membership
Donations
Conversion
Contributor-pay
Sponsorship
Institutional
Governmental
Partnership and Exchanges
staffing models
content models
Licensing
copyrighted
Creative Commons
Attribution (BY)
Share-Alike (SA)
Non-Commercial (NC)
Non-Derivatives (ND)
Public Domain
unknown
crowd sourced
crowd curated
expert produced
curated
Adoption
barriers
questions of quality
maintenance of materials? obsolescence?
trusting the source
+ time to repurpose
institutional and individual resistance
apathy/fear of change
What is an OER?
technical challenges
no perceived benefit
revealing proprietary content
"my" intellectual property
cost shifting? or savings?
benefits
Institutional
++ potential collaboration
++ exposure to potential students
- cost
++ reputation (internationally?)
Student
- cost
++quality cho ices
"living" up to date learning materials
Academic
collaboration improves quality
++ knowledge dissemination
++ exposure & transparency
allows peer review
Public
++ opportunities
++ access
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History
MDDE: Openness in Education: Key concepts in the course
open access journals
green access
gold access
Considerations
Accreditation
universal recognition?
perceived value?