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Stephen Downes

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Doug Belshaw mixes his work with an OER infoKit and his understanding of pragmatism to reach some general conclusions about open educational resources:
- There’s nothing special about OER
- There are no meaningful metrics for OERs
- It’s not about OER, it’s about Openness
He writes, "Whilst academic ideas and debates are important, the point - to paraphrase Marx - is not to describe the world but to change it. Waiting for everyone to agree about OERs before getting on and doing something about changing the system is a fool’s errand. No amount of posturing changes practice."

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