Comments on: The Future of OCW, and “OCW 2.0″

By: Mark, eLearning Designer

Mark, eLearning Designer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:17:15 +0000

Good to see some more sustainable business models for OCW. I think the “freemium” model of leaving some content open but charging for premium courses could work. What about other models such as advertising-supported learning? I’m not talking banner ads in eLearning but other forms of advertising such as product placement or graduate advertising are feasible.

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100 Must-Read Blog Posts on the Future of Learning | Webmaster 9 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:50:03 +0000

[...] The Future of OCW, and “OCW 2.0″. This post speculates that open courseware will become a source of college credit in the next few years. [...]

By: Posts I must read – note to self : ChrisGribble.com

Posts I must read – note to self : ChrisGribble.com — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:22:09 +0000

[...] The Future of OCW, and “OCW 2.0″. This post speculates that open courseware will become a source of college credit in the next few years. [...]

By: iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » Of OpenCourseWare and Lowriders

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:51:42 +0000

[...] makes a critical point, and one that everyone needs to understand. The model I call OCW 1.0 he calls the “aftermarket” model. No matter what you call it, it’s impossible to [...]

By: David Kernohan

David Kernohan — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:21:44 +0000

I’m wondering whether OER is sustainable by embedding into existing institutional systems… institutions *should* be producing good quality, IPR-defensible materials for their own students… if they are doing this, why not stick them online? (And if they are not, is this not a more pressing problem…)

Only by seeing OER release as a seperate and discrete institutional function do we incur specific costs that must be covered via commercial activity.

By: Open Courseware 2.0? « Cloud Wisdom

Open Courseware 2.0? « Cloud Wisdom — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:11:56 +0000

[...] Courseware 2.0? 2009 May 28 by witthaus Thanks to David Wiley for his blog entry, ‘The Future of OCW and “OCW 2.0″ – it offers another model for the support of OERs to add to my earlier list (although this one is [...]

By: tom nickel

tom nickel — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:40:47 +0000

Your insight about credits and sustainability I think is correct, but Gary’s point about pricing is huge. Pricing of academic credits is part of the bloated, no-connection-to-true-costs fix that higher ed is in. There is another path — and that is CE. CE is a credit or hour-based system with requirements for licensure in many professions. The field of CE is undergoing a major shirft to online delivery now too — but the point is that CE prices rock — $20 – $30/hr or less in most fields.

The CE program I direct is clinically-oriented and emphasizes post-combat behavioral health. We have hours and hours of open access material and more material for-pay at our ridiculously low CE prices. This represents another strategy for Open Resource initiatives in universities trying to sustain themselves. Of course it means producing things that people actually need professionally.

By: OpenFiction [ Blog ] » Yes, and, well…no(t necessarily)

OpenFiction [ Blog ] » Yes, and, well…no(t necessarily) — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:04:16 +0000

[...] Wiley’s making predictions again, this time that OCW goes away unless it supports distance learning for credit. The essential point that OCWs must have a sustainability plan is true enough, but suggesting [...]

By: rosanna

rosanna — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:46:19 +0000

I agree. For our open education projects (www.federica.unina.it) we are already trying to build a sustanaible model to let the project survive as longer as possible.

By: Wiley on “OCW 2.0″ « Open Education News

Wiley on “OCW 2.0″ « Open Education News — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:51:45 +0000

[...] 21, 2009 · No Comments David Wiley has a new post regarding the future of OpenCourseWare. He makes a distinction between “OCW 1.0,” which [...]