Open content and libraries
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009I was really interested in Tony Hirst’s recent post Open educational Resources and the University Library Website, which raised something which had never occurred to me and I am not sure why. At the end of the Mosaic project one of our key conclusions was “maximise discoverability, put open content where people already look for things” and somehow in writing this, immersed in the web and web 2.0 and thinking of google and flikr I overlooked one of the key places where people already look for things are library sites.
It still seems to me the two biggest barriers to wide-scale uptake of OERs remains 1) licenses and 2) the ability to find useful OERs in the first place.
So I agree with Tony, this is something we have to resolve, and soon.
