A major European report on open educational resources recommends the adoption of competency-based learning. "This report emphasises the need to foster open practices of teaching and learning that are informed by a competency-based educational framework." (p.12) I can see the reasoning: OER's enable autonomous learning, but only if learning is evaluated in terms of outcomes, not process. "The learner's autonomy, personal mastery and self-direction must be acknowledged." (p.39) This also opens learning to more providers, something explicitly embraced by the report: policy makers and funding bodies, they write, should "demand public–private partnerships to concentrate on ventures for innovating educational practices and resources." (p.122) I don't see the need for such a linkage. Public money should fund educational activities directly, in support of public policy objectives.
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