Reusing Educational Assets
Tony Hirst,
OUseful Info,
Sept 03, 2021
Tony Hirst revisits this concept in the context of a potential internal Open University project and finds that the same old questions resurface once again. "A question I keep coming back to, time after time after time after time after time, is the question of what assets are actually reusable?" And the answer is, it's not things that are easy to create (like, say, 500 words of text), but things that are hard to create, like good glossary items, images and diagrams, equations, and the like. But sometimes the effort to create reusability is greater than the effort it replaces. Creating (or fixing) resource metadata to make it discoverable, for example, is time-consuming. Finally, he notes, the resources need to be editable (easy for text, harder for images).
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