Open Educational Resources

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Open Educational Resources
Michael Q. McShane, Education Next, 2016/10/25
This article opens as an account of the nature and history of open educational resources. But then it turns sceptical. Michael Q. McShane writes, "open resources are offered free to users, but they are not necessarily free to produce... the people who create them want to be paid for doing so." Fair enough, and for the most part creators are paid by their school, company, university or government department. More...