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Adoption as Linking: A Response to the Stephens

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I recently suggested that we need to begin looking beyond simply sharing OER and get around to adopting them. The post generated several comments, and I want to respond specifically to comments from Stephen and Stephen. Both Stephens agree that my idea of adoption, which involves revising and remixing, is wrong-headed. Downes writes “Here at … Read more

Openness: From Sharing to Adopting

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We’ve been sharing open educational resources for over 12 years now. There are literally 10s of 1000s of them out there, many of them structured as OCW (collections of course materials), some of them structured as complete open courses, some of them structured as complete open textbooks, and many of them not really structured at … Read more

OER Recommender Call for Feedback

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Former COSLers Joel Duffin and Justin Ball are continuing their work on tools that make OER more valuable and useful. The OER Recommender (now part of the Folksemantic project) is one of the premiere tools in their bag. If you’ve visited an OER that uses the recommendation service (see “Related Resources” on the right of … Read more