Stephen Downes

I don't think I've mentioned this before, but this paper is a quick outline of a course development model whereby designers conceptualize a course, do a "deep search" to find related open educational resources, and then apply these resources to the course outline. This is one of 21 Case Studies from the Game Changers book published by EDUCAUSE last May (worth an extended look if you haven't seen it already). I ran across it while testing the new OER Knowledge Cloud, which currently indexes 526  resources (including two of mine) on the subject of open educational resources.