OER Beyond Voluntarism

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. OER Beyond Voluntarism
Brian Jacobs, Inside Higher Ed, 2014/08/29
I don't think panOpen.com's Brian Jacobs gets the concept of OERs. here's what he writes in Inside Higher Ed: "A better way forward is to compensate the stakeholders -- faculty, copyright holders, and technologists, principally -- for their contributions to the OER ecosystem. This can be done by charging students nominally for the OER courses they take or as a modest institutional materials fee." The point of OERs is that you don't charge the students. More...