There's some good thinking in this post from Tony Hirst as he follows up Martin Weller on why a focus on producing open educational resources is not enough. Weller argues that "if UNESCO really want to realise their aim of equitable education, they should foreground the need for support to accompany OER." But what is this support supposed to look like? "Assign that thing someone else wrote, and wrap it with your own teaching context", or "pinch that idea and modify it for your own use"? What we need are recipes, he argues, not resources. It's like the difference between sharing Excel workbooks and sharing code. "Excel workbooks are hard to maintain, collaborate on, and debug because they are not reproducible."
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