The Unitwin Network on Open Education (UNOE) is posting a series of articles under the heading 'sharing is hard' and I want to point to two articles from this series, this one, which depicts people asking, "What is the point of sharing my lesson or lesson plan when I am not at a prestigious institution?" and My Precious, by Javiera Atenas and Leo Havemann, which asks why why academics guard their teaching resources and data (but happily share their articles). Both offer the perspective that educators don't share because they are afraid to, because they don't have enough prestige or don't want to share unpolished work in public. I find this sort of article reductive, as though we could just explain why people don't share, adjust the motivational factors, and make it all better. But this idea that there are reasons why people don't share may be inherently flawed. There might be no reason at all.
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