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An Elephant in the OER Room:
One Topic We Aren’t Talking About
Brandon Muramatsu, mura@mit.edu
David Wiley, david.wiley@gmail.com
Photo by Nam Anh on Unsplash
Hi, my name is George,
Ellen had another
session to attend
Copyright 2019, Brandon Muramatsu and David Wiley. Unless otherwise stated this
presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
“Sustainability can be defined as a
project’s ongoing ability
to meet its goals.”
Sustainability involves resources of
various types to meet many needs:
• Creating new content (static)
• course materials, assessments
• Creating new content
(dynamic)
• assessments, simulations,
interactives
• Platform
• Hosting, security
• Community
• development / facilitation,
coordination
• Maintaining existing content
• recency, relevance
• Improving existing content
• data-informed continuous
improvement
• Platform improvements
• new features, bug fixes, security
updates
• Wholesale platform changes
Will every person associated with your open
ed initiative work for free as a volunteer?
If yes, where does the funding to coordinate
their work come from?
If not, where does the funding to support
their work come from?
Is hoping that a small number of
major foundation programs
will continue to fund OER indefinitely
a reasonable and viable long term plan?
Is hoping that one time funding will
continue to be provided
(by colleges, state legislatures, etc.)
a reasonable and viable long term plan?
If not, where does the
funding come from?
Is there a role for revenue?
E.g., fee for services models, including:
Professional societies
Membership networks
Internal (course fees)
External (value added service providers)
Frameworks Matter
Are OER common pool
resources?
If yes, we should fund and
manage them as a commons
Are OER public goods?
If yes, we should fund
and manage them as
public infrastructure
An Elephant in the OER Room: One Topic We Aren't Talking About

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An Elephant in the OER Room: One Topic We Aren't Talking About

  • 1. An Elephant in the OER Room: One Topic We Aren’t Talking About Brandon Muramatsu, mura@mit.edu David Wiley, david.wiley@gmail.com Photo by Nam Anh on Unsplash Hi, my name is George, Ellen had another session to attend Copyright 2019, Brandon Muramatsu and David Wiley. Unless otherwise stated this presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  • 2. “Sustainability can be defined as a project’s ongoing ability to meet its goals.”
  • 3. Sustainability involves resources of various types to meet many needs: • Creating new content (static) • course materials, assessments • Creating new content (dynamic) • assessments, simulations, interactives • Platform • Hosting, security • Community • development / facilitation, coordination • Maintaining existing content • recency, relevance • Improving existing content • data-informed continuous improvement • Platform improvements • new features, bug fixes, security updates • Wholesale platform changes
  • 4. Will every person associated with your open ed initiative work for free as a volunteer? If yes, where does the funding to coordinate their work come from? If not, where does the funding to support their work come from?
  • 5. Is hoping that a small number of major foundation programs will continue to fund OER indefinitely a reasonable and viable long term plan?
  • 6. Is hoping that one time funding will continue to be provided (by colleges, state legislatures, etc.) a reasonable and viable long term plan? If not, where does the funding come from?
  • 7. Is there a role for revenue? E.g., fee for services models, including: Professional societies Membership networks Internal (course fees) External (value added service providers)
  • 8. Frameworks Matter Are OER common pool resources? If yes, we should fund and manage them as a commons Are OER public goods? If yes, we should fund and manage them as public infrastructure