Open Training Resources
Tony Hirst,
OUseful Info,
Oct 12, 2009
Tony Hirst questions the purpose of open educational resources (OERs): "I wonder (again) what it is we actually expect to happen to these OERs (how many OER projects re-use other peoples' bids to get funding? How many reuse each others ‘what are OERs stuff'? How many OER projects ever demonstrate a remix of their content, or a compelling reuse of it? How many publish their sites as a wiki so other people can correct errors? How many are open to public comments, ffs? How many give a worked example of any of the twenty items on Liam's list with their content, and how many of them mix in other people's OER content if they ever do so?" He concludes, "So here's where I'm at – OERs are probably not that useful. But open training materials potentially are." How about plain ordinary open content?
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