Stand up for Little OER

Martin Weller

Granularity

Big and Little OER

Big Little

Institutional Individual

high reputation cheap

good teaching quality, web (2) native

little reversioning required

easily remixed and reused

expensive low production quality

often not web native reputation ‘buyer beware’

reuse limited distributed

The Green and Gold Route to OA

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/1695363828/

Is there a ‘better’ way?

• Harnad - Green OA is ‘faster’ and ‘surer’

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chefranden/83594459/

Factors leading to Little OER

Good tools

Publish yourself platforms

Power of networks

Removal of filters

http://www.flickr.com/photos/httpwwwflickrcompeoplenadar/3349883/

Big OER is too intentional

Research papers

Lectures/Teaching content

Conferences Data

Code

IdeasDebate

Everything is OER

Generative systems

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vimages/2910864052/

Issues

Time

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonivc/2283676770/

Recognition

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdevers/4602805654/

Quality

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12495774@N02/2405297371/

Implicit message

So…

• Is a hybrid approach best?• Is a hybrid approach possible?• How do you encourage Little OER?• Universities tend to projectise everything, so

make it all big OER