People should think twice before leaping to centralize national OER repositories, writes Phil Barker. OER are not the same as research papers or cultural heritage. "OER are difficult, complex beasts, the people who produce them and care for them should be looked after," he writes. The central repository tends to produce exactly the conditions that make people hesitant to share: loss of control, repository functionality, being judged, lack of reciprocity. Instead, he writes (and I enthusiastically agree), "Let's think of creating services that foster the collaborative creation of OER, and let's create conduits to the open web."
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