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Stephen Downes

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The answer to the question is, "OER made sense as a means of sharing the effort of creating learning resources, dividing work between partners with different skills and viewpoints." But more interesting to me was this comment at the end: "I would stress that David Wiley's ALMS framework is as important as his 5Rs ("Poor Technical Choices Make Open Content Less Open") and highlight the interoperability of ePub in this context." The ALMS Framework suggests that we ask about the following four items: access to editing tools, level of expertise required, is it meaningful editable, and is it self-sourced (as opposed to requiring processing into a final consumer version).

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