Stephen Downes

A Day in the life of an “OER Librarian”
Scott Leslie, EdTechPost, January 30, 2012.

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Scott Leslie describes his experience as an 'OER librarian' searching for open-access textbooks that can be used to replace the more proprietary versions currently in use. Among his discoveries: the generic Google search is nearly useless for a task like this, there's no one-stop OER reference point but a few collections are useful, and open source products are much more likely than proprietary products to have open source manuals. And, "I can foresee a dynamic approach, supported by any number of systems (a wiki might work well) in which... If done in something that allowed for easy 'clipping' and republishing of collected work into a new textbook, this iterated approach could go a long way to the creation of a new text that worked at all the levels of granularity it needed to." (Hits Today: 2 Total: 620) [Direct Link] [Tags: Open Educational Resources, Books, Google, Open Source, Experience]

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